When Ben sent me Mark Humphries’ report on testing a new, unreleased Gemini model, I got scared. And excited. Mark is a historian and digital humanist who’s gone deep on analyzing AI tools for textual transcription. He understands the dangers of “seductive plausibility” in LLM outputs. He knows what researchers and historians need from archival text. He measures errors … [Read more...] about Introducing Gemini 3.0 Support in FromThePage
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Is That Transcription Really Human?
Last month, Denyse Allen asked this question on the Genealogy and AI Facebook group:If volunteers use AI to transcribe documents, is that OK? I have strong opinions, but want to explain them. First off, the institutions running big crowdsourcing projects have staff who can automate sending all of their documents to AI engines for transcription. As a software developer, … [Read more...] about Is That Transcription Really Human?
We Got Clobbered by Bots
A behind-the-scenes look at how an invisible attack nearly brought down FromThePage—and what we did next.A Four-Hour Outage, Bots, and a Hard Lesson Learned Last Thursday, June 26th, FromThePage experienced more than a dozen outages totalling four hours. In the days leading up to this, we also saw a noticeable slowdown in performance. This wasn’t just frustrating — it was … [Read more...] about We Got Clobbered by Bots
Can LLMs Help With Boring Forms?
Two weeks ago, I looked at Ben and said "What we obviously should build next is field-based AI-Assist." Transcribing forms or "spreadsheet-like" ledgers and rolls is not as much fun as transcribing letters or field books, so anything that makes the process easier might appeal to volunteers. And because the text is more "data" than "text", it should suffer less from … [Read more...] about Can LLMs Help With Boring Forms?
Have you seen FromThePage's new Find A Project?
We've revamped this overall view of FromThePage to make it easier for you to find projects you're interested in: Find projects by category -- be it "vital records" "railroads" or "African American History" or many more! Find the organizations you love to contribute to in the alphabetical organizations list. Find new collections, just posted with fresh new material … [Read more...] about Have you seen FromThePage's new Find A Project?