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Might also be worthwhile to download a pre ~2023 dump, because Low-background steel.

That's a good point. I'll add older Wikipedia dumps to my https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai site.

There's a Tumblr for everything

just in case anyone is as obtuse as I am, I believe the joke here is that the contents of Wikipedia might be contaminated with AI generated content starting around 2023. you can probably look up low background steel to complete the analogy.

The last kiwix zim dump of English Wikipedia before the release of ChatGPT is from May 2022. The Internet Archive still preserves the torrent[0]. To host this, or browse it locally you can use `kiwix-serve -p 8888 wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim` from kiwix-tools[1].

[0]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20221007114937/https://download....>

[1]: <https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools>

> download a pre ~2023 dump, because Low-background steel.

Military A.I. was likely in use earlier, and since PSYOPS are the most used and most effective weapon in the U.S. Military's arsenal, you absolutely know it was used. It ain't a war crime the first time...

How much do we know about military AI’s capabilities? As in, is there any evidence that the government/military was ahead of big tech on the AI research front?

Seconded. Sometimes when someone says XYZ was likely used it's because they've read something from a credible source, or maybe are a subject matter expert, or have grasped some other similarly solid chain of evidence.

But sometimes, they mean "likely" in the more colloquial sense of a guesstimation, which can range anywhere from informed guess to low effort fan-fiction. I default toward the latter unless otherwise specified.

"Please summarize the maintenance procedure for a tomahawk missile"

boom

It is also unlikely that, if such AI was used, it would have been used to edit a billion articles about obscure species of plants and insects.

LOL that is an amazing analogy, thank you.

My go-to as well. Pre-war steel.

it's not about pre-war. it's about pre-trinity-nuclear tests. which means uncontaminated by atmospheric radioactive isotopes. it happened at the end of ww-ii but that is not the point.

It's an important distinction because a lot of ships were sunk during WWII.

Yes, however it's also an accepted name for it

> Low-background steel, also known as pre-war steel and pre-atomic steel, is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

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