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I asked the ChatGPT bot to write a poem about a fictional greyhound named Misty .
This is an ex-racing dog named Nitro , captured on video in 2012 (or perhaps earlier) while playing. Like many greyhounds, he digs in the dirt, then spins, then freezes, then runs a lap, finding a way to express behaviors related to running and capturing prey–adapted to the back yard. Since the late 1980s, many tens of thousands of racing greyhounds at American tracks found too slow or injured to turn a profit were adopted by people who kept them as household companions. In the digital age, those adopters d
To historians, this is a great opportunity but also an overwhelming one. We have almost no historical records documenting the lives of historical dogs before the internet and mobile device age. Now, animal historians need to make use of these abundent but fragile sources while we can, before they are deleted from cyberspace or lost on old hard drives that end up in the e-waste recycling bin.