Updates from the Internet Archive
Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a [ ]
What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories? In the final episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing [ ]
We’re joining with EFF and other civil society groups asking the Governor of New York to veto the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. Here’s why. News publishers have a real problem: [ ]
Preserving humanity s memory isn t cheap. Servers need power, storage needs upgrading, and physical collections need scanning teams working around the clock. Leading a philanthropy department and building a high-performing team [ ]
Languages can vanish just as easily as books, websites, or archives—and when they do, entire ways of understanding the world can disappear with them. In the fifth episode of our [ ]
Sixteen-year-old Simone O. Elias has a lot to say about her generation and the way it is perceived by society. Rather than wait for a traditional publisher, the Berkeley, California, [ ]
Just as printed letters can be scanned and converted into digital text, emerging technology can transform sheet music into sound. A new effort is underway to use optical music recognition [ ]
Folktales are more than stories—they are living records of culture, identity, and collective memory. In the fourth episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić speaks [ ]
Every day, information professionals at libraries, archives, museums and research organizations all over the world work to ensure that knowledge remains available for future generations. From preserving websites before they [ ]
In a new article, The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory, Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that the shift from buying physical [ ]