A data archiving veteran's prophecy: seeing GPT-3 made "we'll legalize this soon" finally click
secemp9 · x · 2026-10-23
An AI-culture anecdote: the author recalls being into data archiving before COVID, when a well-known figure in that scene told him, "soon we will legalize this, dw about it." He didn't get it at the time — until he saw GPT-3 and the vision clicked: the LLM era's appetite for massive datasets reframed a niche, legally gray archiving practice as an industry-scale necessity.
A concise observation on how AI rewrote the norms around copyrighted data.
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