The Digital Curation graduate program at the University of Maine offers online training in the workflow necessary to maintain digital files.
A third of recent websites now contain AI-generated text; Google is increasingly making AI summaries the default mode of knowledge retrieval; and third parties are creating “sloppelgangers” of artists’ web pages with AI. What might this trend mean for cultural heritage, and what should we do about it?
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Are we building data centers for AI—or something else? Data from the industry suggests a more insidious motive.
What if data centers aren’t about AI? Read More »
This week we lost a figure known as “the dean of American avant-garde film.” Ken Jacobs was renowned for his ability to turn the humblest materia prima of cinema, including 16mm projectors and dusty reels of found footage, into optical sorcery. In so doing, he also turned time-honored assumptions about media preservation on their head.
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This April’s teleconference from UMaine’s Digital Curation program looks at the practical and ethical issues of integrating AI into archival workflows—and how human crowdsourcing can fill in the gaps.
Should you let AI manage your collection? Read More »
When a tech reporter for the NY Times outsourced her decisions for a week to ChatGPT, she complained that “AI made me basic.” But it turns out the math behind generative AI can lead to results that are blandly average or wildly inaccurate.
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AI advocates have expressed frustration at Ted Chiang’s critique of AI in The New Yorker, where he argued that large language models “take an average of the choices that other writers have made.” Yes it’s a simplification, but it’s also correct at a fundamental level.
Why your AI outputs feel “average” Read More »
Deep-faked images and other media may get all the headlines when it comes to endangering democracy, but the 2024 Maine Town Meeting revealed that the rise of generative AI arms saboteurs with many more insidious ways to destabilize elections.
AI’s threat to elections is not what you think Read More »
Join UMaine Digital Curation for a conversation with Christiane Paul, a trailblazer in the field who will review how practices of creating, collecting, and exhibiting have transformed in response to the latest tech trends, particularly the rise of generative AI.
Digital Curation in the Shadow of AI Read More »
Still Water faculty and colleagues have an answer for educators confused about how to cope with the rapid rise of ChatGPT and its ilk.
To prevent cheating with AI, add it to your syllabus Read More »
Demand for professionals who can manage collections of digital heritage and data continues to climb rapidly as related job postings rose by 130% in 2022, according to an analysis by UMaine’s Digital Curation program. This is a dramatic surge compared to the 61% increase over the pandemic years between 2019 and 2021.
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