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Report: “Publishers are Selling Papers to Train AIs — and Making Millions of Dollars”
From Nature: Since the explosion in popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI), several scholarly publishers have forged agreements with technology companies looking to use content to train the large language models (LLMs) that underlie their AI tools. A new tracker aims to catalogue what deals are being made — and by whom. “We were seeing announcements of these deals, […]
Authors Alliance: “Developing a Public-Interest Training Commons of Books”
From the Authors Alliance: Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable p lan for a public-interest book training commons for artificial intelligence. Northeastern University Library will be supporting this project and helping to coordinate its progress. Access to books will play an essential role […]
AI Roundup: Document Chat: An Early AI Use Case; Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives; & More Items
Dow Jones/Factiva Dow Jones Negotiates AI Usage Agreements with Nearly 4,000 News Publishers (via Nieman Lab) Ethics Striking a Balance: Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas of AI in Higher Education (via EDUCAUSE Review) Impact Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives (via arXiv) UCLA An Upcoming UCLA Humanities Class Will Utilize AI-Generated Textbook and Assignments (via […]
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Case Over: Internet Archive Decides Not to Pursue Supreme Court Review in Copyright Lawsuit (Roundup of Statements and Media Reports)
Statement From Internet Archive While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review. We will continue to honor the Association of American Publishers (AAP) agreement to remove books from lending at their member publishers’ requests. We thank the many readers, […]
Findings from EBSCO’s Natural Language Search Beta; Training AI through Human Interactions Instead of Datasets; & More
AI Training AI through Human Interactions Instead of Datasets (via Pratt School Engineering/Duke University) EBSCO Findings from EBSCO’s Natural Language Search Beta (via EBSCO Post) OCLC OCLC Publishes Research On Art Library Collaborations in Art Libraries Journal Tennessee Knox County Schools Receive List of Books To Ban From Libraries Under State Law (via WVLT)
$715 Million Deal: “India Takes Out Giant Nationwide Subscription to 13,000 Journals”
From Science: Last week, the Indian government announced a giant deal with multiple publishers that will allow an estimated 18 million students, faculty, and researchers free access to nearly 13,000 journals, including some top-tier ones, through a single portal. Under the One Nation One Subscription scheme, which kicks in on 1 January 2025, India will […]
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Just Released: “The State of Open Data 2024 Special Report: Bridging Policy and Practice in Data Sharing”
From Digital Science: New analysis suggests that open data practice is now on the edge of becoming a standard, recognised and supported scholarly output, globally. As part of the latest in the State of Open Data series, produced by partners Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, direct author-sharing practices have been analysed from a funder, country and institutional […]
Research Paper (Preprint): “Suspected Undeclared Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Academic Literature: An Analysis of the Academ-AI Dataset”
The preprint linked to below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Suspected Undeclared Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Academic Literature: An Analysis of the Academ-AI Dataset Author Alex Glynn University of Louisville Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.15218 Abstract Since generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT became widely available, researchers have used […]
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Report: “Canada’s Major News Organizations Band Together to Sue ChatGPT Creator OpenAI”
From The Toronto Star: A broad coalition of Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC, is suing tech giant OpenAI, saying the company is illegally using news articles to train its ChatGPT software. It’s the first time all of a country’s major […]
We Need to Start Wrestling with the Ethics of AI Agents; How Libraries Shape the Future Of Research Infrastructure; & More Headlines
AI How Federal Funding Terms and Conditions Could Encourage Safe Artificial Intelligence Development (via RAND) Research University Strategies for Implementing Generative Artificial Intelligence Systems: Webinar (via CNI) We Need to Start Wrestling with the Ethics of AI Agents (via Technology Review) Accessibility W3C Web Accessibility Work Boosted by Ford Foundation Core Funding (via W3C) Infrastructure […]
