Comment by AlphaAndOmega0

Comment by AlphaAndOmega0 2 days ago

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It's a reference to the practise of scavenging steel from sources that were produced before nuclear testing began, as any steel produced afterwards is contaminated with nuclear isotopes from the fallout. Mostly ship wrecks, and WW2 means there are plenty of those. The pun in question is that his project tries to source text that hasn't been contaminated with AI generated material.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel