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Taylor Lorenz – “I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all. Lately it feels like I’m encountering more and more AI-generated content on Substack. This mirrors patterns across the broader web. Last fall, media …
CounterSpin interview with Lia Holland on the Internet Archive. “Janine Jackson: A recent report by Wired‘s Kate Knibbs leads with the contradiction: USA Today published a story recently on how ICE is misinforming about its detainment policies, a case that the paper built on data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a nonprofit digital library …
Card Catalog: 5 more collections that put their archives online for everyone From 2,000 years of medical illustration to vintage software preserved in a browser, these five free digital archives cover an enormous range of human record-keeping. Wellcome Collection (wellcomecollection.org) Over 100,000 images spanning 2,000 years of medical history, all free to download under Creative …
Just Security – By Christopher Fonzone. April 15, 2026. “On April 1, 2026, the Department of Justice issued an opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluding that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress’s constitutional powers and aggrandizes the Legislative Branch at the expense of the independence and …
“Released in February 2026 as a product of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice, the white paper “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community” advocates for libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) to take proactive and pragmatic steps to ensure that digital collections content, especially content …
Phiresky: “Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do – collect and share as many books as possible. One shadow library, Anna’s …
Pew Research Center – “Digital books have grown in popularity over the past decade, but more Americans still read books in print than in digital formats. Overall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read all or part of at least one book in the past 12 months, according to a Pew Research Center survey …
Follow up to Donald Trump, again wants to kill off IMLS, the library agency [Trump’s first attempt to destroy IMLS in 2018] – ALA’s separate court challenge continues – Washington – On April 6, a federal court granted the Trump Administration’s request to withdraw its appeal of a federal judge’s earlier ruling that struck down …
Tubefilter – “Oh sorry, children’s advocacy orgs and experts, you wanted YouTube to have less AI-generated content aimed at kids? HarperCollins plans to add to the pile. The Big Five publisher has signed a multiyear deal with Toonstar, which describes itself as an “AI-powered” studio built by “a nimble team of creators, builders and technologists …
Liu, Xinyue and Mireshghallah, Niloofar and Ginsburg, Jane C. and Chakrabarty, Tuhin, Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models (March 20, 2026). Columbia Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6449179 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6449179 Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not …
404 Media: “Conservative parents’ advocacy groups have been experimenting with using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries. Even though LLMs are notoriously error-prone, and the books in question aren’t pornographic, these groups continue to explore use cases for AI …
Via LLRX – How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – Hana Lee Goldin is a expert “human” pathfinder who shares her extensive knowledge with an expanding cadre of people seeking to adopt AI in all facets of work and life. In her article, Goldin deftly illuminates one of the major risks of ChatGPT. …
