suse anderson: “In short: the actions of the large corporations who are training AI models on in-copyright material are provoking a backlash against the idea of open dissemination on the internet and web.” I’m curious what impact this kind of scraping is having on approaches to online museum collections.

“In short: the actions of the large corporations who are training AI models on in-copyright material are provoking a backlash against the idea of open dissemination on the internet and web.” I’m curious what impact this kind of scraping is having on approaches to online museum collections.

Watched a provocative #sharp2024 session on AI & book history. @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social gave a tour de force inspired by an LLM inside a font, llama.ttf. I'm eager to talk with @ryancordell.bsky.social re his research on newspapers copying each other. 1/

AI and Open Cultural Licensing (remarks to be presented at the SHARP plenary roundtable: AI In the Communications Circuit)eve.gd Some remarks that will be presented at the SHARP plenary roundtable: AI in the Communications Circuit.

I think broadly people think it's too late to do much about it, everything public has already been scraped

Sure. Do you think it changes anything going forward?

Probably. Everything from concerns about the implications for creators, the risks of undue prominence and out of context uses of material by or about living people, through to the brief moment of actually making money by licensing access to digitised content to AI companies hungry for more 'tokens'

I’ve been having these exact conversations with one institution I’ve been working with. Someone told them they could protect themselves with “blockchain”.

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