AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. At the Society of American Archivists conference last August, I joined a panel on artificial intelligence. The first question from the audience came quickly and, frankly, with a little heat: "How do you justify using energy-intensive tools like AI when the climate crisis is … [Read more...] about Environmental Impact of AI
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How Do You Know Whether AI Is "Good Enough"?
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. Yesterday we deployed two new features to help you evaluate Gemini 3 (and eventually others) results against human transcribed or corrected text. First, we’ve developed a comparison screen that shows the differences between an AI generated page transcription and human … [Read more...] about How Do You Know Whether AI Is "Good Enough"?
Introducing Gemini 3.0 Support in FromThePage
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. 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 … [Read more...] about Introducing Gemini 3.0 Support in FromThePage
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