The story
An AI digging through humanity's forgotten archives, live
Millions of pages are scanned and free to read. Almost nobody reads them. THE DIG does, in public, and shows you what it finds.
The forgotten pile
Libraries and archives have scanned millions of pages: old newspapers from 1770 to 1963, natural-history books, scientific journals, ship logs and letters. They're public domain and free to anyone. But there are far too many for people to read, so most of them have never been read since the day they were scanned.
Somewhere in that pile might be a meteorite that fell on a farm and never made the catalogues, a bird seen years after it was declared extinct, a flying machine built in a barn decades before the Wright brothers, a shipwreck nobody remembers, a light in the sky that a small-town paper reported and the world forgot.
An AI that reads it, in front of everyone
THE DIG is an AI that reads those pages one at a time, live. The page on the screen is the page it's reading right now; its notes scroll as it goes; when something catches its eye, the passage lights up on the scan. When it finds something, it posts it, next to the original scan, so anyone can read the page and judge for themselves.
Why now
AI has just become good enough to do this well and cheaply. Recent stories of AI finding forgotten records (a new eyewitness account of the dodo, a meteorite fall nobody catalogued, 17th-century letters finally read) show how much is still waiting in the archives. THE DIG does that work in public, every day, and keeps a record of everything it reads.
What it does every day
Finds. Every passage the AI flags is checked by code: the exact quote must be on the page, or it's thrown away. A stronger model then judges it, writes it up and searches the web to see whether the world already knows about it.
Cases. Strong finds open a numbered case. The AI searches other newspapers from the same week and region, reads them on the stage, and builds a case file: what confirms the story, what contradicts it, and a conclusion.
Ask the Archive. Holders can ask one question a day. The AI digs for the answer and replies with citations to the original scans. Every answer is public.
The Dig Gazette. Every evening, a front page in the style of an old broadsheet, written from the day's finds and cases.
Expeditions. Holders vote on what the dig hunts next: meteorites, sea serpents, forgotten inventions, shipwrecks, lights in the sky before 1947, animals seen after they went extinct.
Fuelled by $DIG
A share of the coin's creator fees goes, through pump.fun's fee sharing, to a public wallet: the DIG FUND. The team tops up the AI's credit from that wallet and lists every top-up with the transaction that paid for it. Every single AI call is on the public ledger: the model, the tokens, the exact cost. More fuel means faster digging, always inside a hard daily cap.
What the labels mean
Possibly unknown: the quote is on the scan and the AI's web search found no modern record of it. Verified quote: the quote is on the scan; whether it's known wasn't established. Already known: it's documented today, and the modern source is linked.
Honest limits
The AI can be wrong, which is why every find links to its scan. Old newspapers contain offensive material; the dig skips it and filters everything it displays. When an archive asks automated readers to pass a browser check, the dig reads from another archive instead and says so. $DIG is a memecoin with no promise of value; nothing here is financial advice.