> On Tuesday, October 8th, the Internet Archive began experiencing a multi-approach cyberattack across several fronts, which interrupted access to our digital library. Our main priority is keeping our archived data safe, though at the expense of service availability. As a result, we took archive.org and openlibrary.org offline over the past few days to examine and strengthen our services—the Wayback Machine is now back online in a read-only view, and our blog and Mastodon have returned. We are increasing security measures and conducting additional checks on our infrastructure to ensure our archives remain secure. An attack on our resources is not just an attack on the Internet Archive but a blow to millions of digital learners worldwide who depend on our services. We are committed to strengthening our defenses and constantly improving our security.
"Who controls the past controls the future." I think protecting the Internet Archive is very important - wondering if it'd make sense to move all this content to Arweave or some other decentralized storage solution.
I also feel this is related to the recent increase in AI-generated pictures in image search for historical persons. It'd be useful if we put the portraits of them on something like arweave probably, just in case ahha
Also feel this is pretty relevant with the increase in AI-generated images when you search for historic persons. Do we really need to let AI tell us how Lincoln looked like? Not really we could just check out the paintings... So it'd be good to have some place where these things are stored in a "verified" manner and accessible.
> I also feel this is related to the recent increase in AI-generated pictures in image search for historical persons. Wait what happened there? I haven't heard about this. Do you have a link?
Yes, this was in the news a week ago https://petapixel.com/2024/10/10/ai-is-muddying-google-image-search-results-people-arent-happy/ I might have curated something on this even.
Also this one: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/google-thinks-beethoven-looks-like And here: https://x.com/SophiedeGrouchy/status/1845029963684073598 And here https://x.com/YoungbloodJoe/status/1846615831306031447 Saw references to mushrooms too somewhere and how people ate poisonous ones. So yeah, should not trust image search for deciding what to eat either.