Let's hear some good tinfoil hat theories!
I'll start. Maybe one of the LLM/AI companies are trying to bypass newly implemented barrers to training data by using the archive, and it's totally overwhelming their servers?
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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I think it's more likely that someone is trying to keep competitors from mining it for a short term advantage
Who needs it down right now?
Assholes
Be more specific haha
Big assholes?
Assholes with know how and resources are likely pretty big
Someone with their own proprietary large dataset trying to eliminate non-proprietary alternatives?
Decent theory money does drive a lot of human behavior.
Any suggestions on who this actor could be?
Google?
~~Cripto~~ AI Bros.
money does drive a lot of human ~~behavior~~ insane.
I highly doubt this was done by Google
Why wouldn’t companies have already got their data long ago? Internet archive is nothing new.
Existing AI companies got their data long ago—but it’s in their interest to create barriers for entry to new AI companies.
Yeah, that’s fair.
Someone facing an enormous lawsuit who realized their tweets / claims were accessible and needs to buy time for their legal team.
elon or bunker bitch?
Bored script kiddies?
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<3 Internet Archive
I wouldn't be surprised, because it's happened before, that the Internet Archive has been attacked legally by copyright firms for what is hosted there. Like music, games and books in particular.
So it's likely that it isn't suits attacking Internet Archive for this reason, it's presumably a mixed batch of copyright trolls and spiteful shitty human beings with too much time on their hands.
We should have a call for hackers/pentesters/cybersec enthusiasts to find these little shits and break their infrastructure
Reminds me of stars wars scene with the Jedi archives been manipulated..
How did master Obi Wan lose an entire planet? Disgraceful.
Why don't we just DDOS the DDOSers? 🤷🏻♂️
I'd be down
What a shame
Checking in, it's up for me right now. Seems like an ongoing battle though.
Good luck, fellas!