- Academic study of the 20th Century and beyond is a canary in the AI wars coal mine. Whether through paywalls, license terms, lawsuits, or all three, copyright holders are taking action to ensure that a 21C digital library of texts freely available for scholarly analysis never exists.
- So let’s check in on computational analysis of literature. What’s happening there? 1) Good news, LLMs make it possible to pose 10x as many questions. 2) Bad news, we’re losing our ways to access post-1930 data and don’t know if they will be replaced, 3) and there’s no longer any NEH support. +
