We are researchers from the University of Edinburgh seeking interviewees for a project tentatively titled “Economic and infrastructural risks to digital archives posed by AI-driven content extraction.” We are talking to people who manage key archival and commons-based data sources across large and small institutions impacted by these risks.
We need your help! We’re seeking contacts to interview and are particularly interested in hearing from digital archival bodies - whether public institutions, legal deposit libraries, charities, nonprofits, foundations, or other similar entities - which have either a legal mandate or a commons-based public interest in archiving any kind of content which is threatened by mass AI scraping tools. If that seems broad, it is! We think this is an issue impacting many organisations and we’re very curious to know what impacts they’re noticing from AI scraping and how they are mitigating these challenges or planning to do so in future.
If you’d like to get involved, please reach out to Morgan Currie: morgan.currie@ed.ac.uk