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Research Notes: The Archive Problem

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A Z Mackay
Jul 30, 2025
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The Starting Question

What happens when AI can analyze archives that humans couldn’t practically access? The question surfaced while reading about police bodycam footage sitting unreviewed in digital storage. Millions of hours of video, equivalent to 25 million copies of “Barbie,” just accumulating. Then AI companies started selling tools that could anal…

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