It's funny to think that pre-LLM archives are the new low-background steel.
Ooh, I like this way of thinking of it. Thanks for that!
It certainly may place a very high value on archive.org over time thanks to their historical timestamping
Hence all the AI labs buying up and destroying physical books. Even "yellow press" stuff, pulp fiction, dime novels and whatnot "low quality" literature are a valuable source of how actual humans write.
I wouldn't even have much of a problem with it - if these labs would be fair enough to humanity as a whole to provide the raw scans after the process is completed, and if they would limit themselves to books that have been on the market for more than 20 years.
Krazam has a video about that.