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On behalf of the CDLC Board of Trustees, we are excited to announce the formation of a committee dedicated to exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on libraries. This committee will lead efforts to educate members about artificial intelligence, develop engaging programs, and recommend valuable resources. They are also planning an AI and Libraries Symposium in the fall of 2024. Stay tuned!

AI and Copyright

Looking Forward: The U.S. Copyright Office’s AI Initiative in 2024
Library of Congress Blog
Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content
Article from WIRED
Microsoft, OpenAI sued by New York Times over copyright infringement
Article from Fox about NYT lawsuit.
How copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI
"The New York Times v. OpenAI, explained."
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
"Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield"
Have I Been Trained?
"Search for your work in popular AI training datasets".

AI Tools (not a comprehensive list)

ChatGPT
Well-known large language model.
Claude
"Claude is a next generation AI assistant built for work and trained to be safe, accurate, and secure."
Dalle-2
Will create images from text input.
Descript
Text-to-speech voice model that creates videos, podcasts, etc.
Jasper
High-end writing assistant.
Microsoft Copilot
AI for your desktop.
Midjourney
"Midjourney generates images from natural language descriptions, called prompts, similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion."
Perplexity
"Perplexity AI is an AI-chatbot-powered research and conversational search engine that answers queries using natural language predictive text."
Stable Diffusion
Another text input art generator.

Libraries and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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AI and Copyright

AI Tools (not a comprehensive list)