An institution recently emailed and asked: “Are you doing some AI experiment on my collection without telling me? I see this one transcriber who really feels like they are using AI.” I started typing a standard response: Of course we’re not testing AI on your collection without telling you. Have you checked the suspicious behaviors dashboard? Have you considered turning … [Read more...] about We Thought This Transcriber Was a Bot
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The AI Encyclical and the Question of Efficiency: When "Easier" isn't "Better"
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. Last week, I was corresponding with my friend Laura Morreale about the results of Gemini transcription on this Crusader-era manuscript. The differences between the AI results and Laura’s are fairly interesting: there are some mis-readings, … [Read more...] about The AI Encyclical and the Question of Efficiency: When "Easier" isn't "Better"
Making AI Energy Use More Transparent
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. We recently hosted a webinar by our friend Jon Ippolito from the University of Maine's New Media program. We'd been looking for resources on how to evaluate and judge energy usage by LLMs since last summer's SAA panel questions started with a pointed "question" on the ethical … [Read more...] about Making AI Energy Use More Transparent
AI With Historical Instincts?
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. Ben recently made the following observations on BlueSky, and we thought they were interesting enough to share with all of you: I stumbled across something interesting during a live demo in yesterday's webinar. Not having anything prepared, I tried a page in the … [Read more...] about AI With Historical Instincts?
How Good HTR is Changing What & How We’re Transcribing
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. In a recent discussion on BlueSky, Ben and Scott Weingart (and others) had a conversation about the explosion of possibilities that might come from good, cheap, AI transcription. Scott asks “how the bias of the spotlight of what’s searchable will reshape how people will … [Read more...] about How Good HTR is Changing What & How We’re Transcribing