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The KB National Library in The Hague is taking action against commercial companies that use its collection without permission to train artificial intelligence.
The library is digitizing its collection of books, newspapers and other texts. Commercial companies, like the company behind ChatGPT, use these resources to train artificial intelligence (AI). “The texts from the KB National Library have been digitized in high quality, so they are very interesting for these companies,” library board member Martijn Kleppe tells the radio News and Co.
The National Library believes that it is not ethically responsible for commercial companies to simply use the texts. Some companies do not respect copyright and source attribution, the library said.
Debate on the use of data
Many publications in the collection are still protected by copyright, which means that the rights still belong to the creators. The library has made agreements with the authors for the use of these texts, Kleppe says.
But use by commercial companies is not covered by such agreements. “We especially want to start a debate and start an ethical conversation about how data can and cannot be used.”
Artificial intelligence, abbreviated AI in English, is a generic term for all types of tasks performed by computers that normally require human intelligence. He is good at recognizing patterns and analyzing situations. The applications vary enormously: from advice on your streaming account, to driving self-driving cars, to the solution to combat climate change.
The library will adapt the general conditions and carry out technical intervention so that commercial companies can no longer automatically use the data on a large scale.
It is important for the library that private individuals can continue to use the texts, says Kleppe. “The library has been collecting everything that has been published in the Netherlands for 225 years. Over the last 20 years we have digitized that collection, so that people can read a newspaper from 1944 at home behind their computer, for example.”
According to Kleppe, the library’s policy remains focused on providing as transparent access to data as possible. “People who want to do their own research, for example, on their family history can simply continue to view the data.”
2024-01-12 20:04:12
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