tainbocuailnge:

what I’m about to say in this post is idle speculation that i have zero proof for so don’t put too much stock in it.

with imgur twitter and now google all changing their policies to delete inactive accounts and old content in what feels like very quick succession, with very little leniency on what counts as old enough to throw out (only 30 days for twitter. madness.), i wonder if it’s somehow related to the large amount of hardware space that a decently advanced AI demands. i’m rather skeptical that every cornerstone of the internet just coincidentally ran out of server space to keep storing old accounts at the same time. so my gut suspicion is that they want to hop on the AI hypetrain and decided it’s cheaper to just delete “stuff nobody cares about anymore” off their servers to make room for AI software and databases than it is to buy more server space.

I think it’s also to get rid out outdated info that AI databases are crawling that’s my theory


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