Will AI Rewrite the Archive?

Jon Ippolito
Professor of New Media
Director, Digital Curation graduate program
The University of Maine
DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu

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Missing edges of Rembrandt painting The Night Watch restored by the Rijksmuseum using AI.

AI images generated by the Library of Virginia using the description of John Butler from the Fairfax County Register of Free Negroes, 1822-1841.

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AI-generated books

🤗 Accept all AI-generated books
🏷️ Accept AI-generated books only if they are labeled as such
💌 Accept AI-generated books in certain genres
Accept books with some AI generation
- 📔 AI-generated cover art
- 🖼 AI-generated illustrations
- 📝 AI-generated text (what percent?)
🧐 Vet AI-generated submissions (by staff or community)
📚 Place AI-generated books in a separate section or digital shelf
#️⃣ Limit the number of AI-generated books by a single author or publisher
🧧 Allow user flagging of books suspected to be AI-generated without disclosure
❌ Ban all AI-generated books

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Create a bar chart for the most popular technical tools or most common student weaknesses.
What are some unusual or surprising insights to emerge from these data?
Create optimized teams from the student list.