<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true">Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming has launched lowbackgroundsteel.ai, a website preserving pre-AI human-created content.The website aims to protect non-AI media from contamination by AI-generated content, similar to hoarding pre-nuclear steel during the Cold War.Generative AI models like ChatGPT have made it challenging to differentiate between human and AI-created content on the internet.The wordfreq project, tracking word frequency across languages, shut down due to the prevalence of AI-generated text online.Concerns exist about AI models training on their outputs, potentially leading to quality degradation known as 'model collapse.'Research suggests model collapse can be avoided by combining synthetic data with real data during training.Graham-Cumming aims to document human creativity from the pre-AI era through the website.The website points to major pre-AI content sources like Wikipedia dumps, Project Gutenberg, and GitHub's Arctic Code Vault.Lowbackgroundsteel.ai accepts submissions of pre-AI content sources to expand its archives.The project is a digital archaeology effort to distinguish between human-generated and hybrid human-AI cultures.