How AI Rewrites the Archive—For Better or Worse

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.

IMPACT RISK framework for understanding AI risks

https://ai-impact-risk.com/

Can ChatGPT analyze qualitative rather than just quantitative results?

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.

Chat transcript

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Beginner exercise

Connect two random things Tinyurl.com/randomconnections.

Advanced exercise

Design a per se law school exercise for Courtroom 5 (by April Dawson)

Free chatbots

ChatGPT.com
Claude.ai
Gemini.Google.com

How generative AI works

learnwithai_average_trail

“I'm trying to plan a 22 mile trail route in a city in my state. I asked ChatGPT for route suggestions a few times and each time it just made stuff up--once it made up a trail that doesn't exist (to connect two other trails that do) and other times to say to go from one trail to another when the trails are miles apart”

—Katie, New Mexico, March 2023