Thanks to ChatGPT, the pure internet is gone. Did anyone save a copy?

The sunken World War I warship "Hindenburg" was salvaged.

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• Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, there's been an explosion of AI-generated content online.
• In response, some researchers are preserving human-generated content from 2021 and earlier.
• Some technologists compare this to salvaging "low-background steel" free from nuclear contamination.

In the post-nuclear age, scientists noticed a peculiar problem: steel produced after 1945 was contaminated.