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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi Simon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I think there are (at least) two questions in play:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Is it legally and ethically OK to use OA content for LLMs?</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
I won’t attempt to answer but I look forward to responses from others!<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Is it OK to use subscription databases/packages to harvest OA articles for use in a LLM.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Athena<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#242424">Athena Hoeppner </span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#242424">(she/her/hers)</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 17, 2024 9:41 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] OA articles and AI LLMs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Simon<br clear="all">
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