Call to Launch a 'Manhattan Project' for AI Training Data
chrisgrayson · x · 2026-07-20
The original tweet warned of a looming "humanitarian crisis": due to poor preservation of historical records, humanity is losing its knowledge of the past, which will lead to severe consequences in the future.
The quoted tweet provided specific context: many critical data archives in the US are stored only on CDs or DVDs and are already beginning to suffer physical degradation known as "CD Rot." The author argued that to rescue these irreplaceable data sources, the US urgently needs to launch a "Manhattan Project" specifically for AI training data.
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