nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqs2rkq9w4j3ac598tq5jdgg4kfv2tcmwh25ad582fvl7gtf7sdugssk0thl (nprofile…0thl) That's a good question, what do we have here?
Internet Archive Europe began preserving European digital materials since its founding in 2004 in the Netherlands.
So this has been around for a while, but it appears to be mostly aimed at books, which is a (tiny, in numbers) subset of what archive.org deals with, with now some AI sprinkled on top?
I mean, LLMs might have a role in research on those materials, fine, but this kind of feels like the broad, hand-wavy "squirt some AI on $thing because... gotta have AI!" that a lot of people, myself included, are less than thrilled about.
At first, I thought this would be a EU branch of an important archive that is under fire in the US, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
So what, exactly, have we here?