Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab launches initiative to use public domain data to train artificial intelligence - Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School
peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-01-16
Summary:
"At the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI), a new program hosted within the Harvard Law School Library, efforts are already underway to expand and enhance the data resources available for AI training. At the initiative’s public launch on Dec. 12, Library Innovation Lab faculty director, Jonathan Zittrain ’95, and IDI executive director, Greg Leppert, announced plans to expand the availability of public domain data from knowledge institutions — including the text of nearly one million books scanned at Harvard Library — to train AI models...."