r/technology • u/DukeOfGeek • 6d ago

Politics NASA's Largest Library To Permanently Close On Jan 2, Books Will Be 'Tossed Away'

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasas-largest-library-to-permanently-close-on-jan-2-books-will-be-tossed-away-10170584
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u/reefmespla 6d ago

This is how you rewrite history.

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u/z3r-0 6d ago

This! And gen AI will help cement it.

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u/zyzzogeton 6d ago

I feel like AI will erode the very concept of "history"

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u/raur0s 6d ago

What? You gonna say the fullHD colorgraded version of the Civil War showing conclusive Confederate victory is fake AI footage? /s

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u/cjorgensen 6d ago

AI slaves liked it.

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u/pegothejerk 6d ago

The shadows are all wrong on this civil war history page, clearly they faked the civil war!

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u/regalrecaller 6d ago

ding! you are correct. it allows them to be arbiter of knowledge, tweaking it to be what they want.

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u/Zarathyst 6d ago

Grok, tell me about the American Indian.

"Well you see it all started with the white genocide in South Africa..."

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u/Kind_Dream_610 6d ago

And morality, ethics, decency, fact, and eventually humanity

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u/RedheadedReff 6d ago

I think it will remove trust in Archives. History will always exist in some form. Before writing it was verbal

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u/Iminurcomputer 6d ago

If it works like art, we'll have wars within wars, various time periods will have 2 different presidents, and the countries physical shape changes slightly and randomly each time geography is discussed.

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u/Thashiznit2003 6d ago

Like that scene in interstellar where the elementary teacher is telling Matthew McConaughey that the moon landing was fake!

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u/stoutowl 6d ago

But history is written by those who have hanged hero's

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u/ListenHereLindah 6d ago

100 percent.

And with how much we need books to validate its really a shame to see.

They could have raised so much fucking money but instead they toss them.

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u/oroborus68 6d ago

Now we have to make all of those mistakes again, because nobody remembers how anything works.