Jean-Baptiste Kempf

And there's a lot of film that needs to be archived.

Film is degrading.

It's maybe not stored in the right environment.

The other thing is what they also do is because it's open source, they give this away, their workflows to countries who can't afford to have archiving institutions where archiving is done by volunteers.

It's done...

They go and teach in India, they teach children to do FFmpeg commands.

They're really great.

They're really the model community, the model ethos of what we're trying to achieve.

They are such a great bunch of people, so interested in participating and being part of something much bigger because they realize the work they're doing in a thousand years is going to tell a lot.

In a thousand years, we may be drowning in AI slop.

This stuff needs to be important and archived well.

What was life like?

And tape.

70s and 80s, there's tape.

And there's not enough tape heads in the world to read all the tapes.

So they have to decide what they want to archive and throw away the rest of the tapes.

There's huge moral hazard, I guess, for want of a better phrase, around this topic because...

This is a digital record of human history, and they have to make decisions.

And there's digital stewardship, I suppose, for want of... I made that phrase up.

That's not a real phrase.