Inspired from the latest edition of the ImportAI newsletter by Jack Clark.

Question resolves to spirit than to technicalities.

Perhaps in the years after the LLMs arrived we should have taken some snapshots of the internet and put them away in cold storage - but we didn’t. So, over time, as sites bitrot or went offline, there were a bunch of “AI resuscitation” programmes that would basically clone the old site and regenerate it using a generative model, creating some imperfect copy of what had been lost, inflected with the underlying tendencies of whatever AI system had created it.

By 2028 = before 2028