[Eril-l] OA articles and AI LLMs

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Hi Simon,

I think there are (at least) two questions in play:

  1.  Is it legally and ethically OK to use OA content for LLMs?
I won’t attempt to answer but I look forward to responses from others!
  2.  Is it OK to use subscription databases/packages to harvest OA articles for use in a LLM.
Because licenses typically prohibit systematically downloading content, my sense is that you would need to make sure that text and data mining is allowed before starting a large-scale project that relies on subscription databases/packages.

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Hello,

I'm reaching out b/c researchers at our university are asking how/whether they can use OA articles pulled from library databases in AI large language models (LLMs). It would involve pulling the content from within our IP ranges or ezproxy. Do any libraries have experience w/ this? And if so, how have you guided researchers?

Thanks!
Simon


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