For over two decades, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (the GLAMs) have digitized the works in their collection in order to make them publicly available online. In the last 18 months, AI bots have fundamentally altered the economics of sharing that culture. Bots scraping collections in order to build AI training datasets have swarmed online collections, knocking them offline and forcing institutions to rethink how (and if) they can continue to make them freely available. This presentation, held by Michael Weinberg, Executive Director of NYU’s Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy, will share findings from interviews with dozens of institutions, highlighting how these bot swarms behave, what their impact looks like, and the options that institutions are weighing going forward.
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