Is this possible? We think yes because we are already doing something like this for Wikipedia by hand and with special-purpose robots like Internet Archive Bot Wikipedia communities, and these bots, have fixed over 17 million broken links, and have linked one million assertions to specific pages in over 250,000 books. we believe we can make this an automated process that could respond to the customized essays their services produce. Much of the same technologies used for the chatbots can be used to mine assertions in the literature and find when, and in what context, those assertions were made.
The result would be a more dependable World Wide Web, one where disinformation and propaganda are easier to challenge, and therefore weaken.
Yes, there are 4 major publishers suing to destroy a phone number library significant part of the Internet Archive’s book corpus, but we are appealing this ruling. We believe that one role of a research library like the Internet Archive, is to own collections that can be used in new ways by researchers and the general public to understand their world.
What is required? Common purpose, partners, and money. We see a role for a Public AI Research laboratory that can mine vast collections without rights issues arising. While the collections are significant already, we see collecting, digitizing, and making available the publications of the democracies around the world to expand the corpus greatly.
We see roles for scientists, researchers, humanists, ethicists, engineers, governments, and philanthropists, working together to build a better Internet.
With the help of the AI companies
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