Arkivism Is an Accessible Antidote to AI with 4 Million+ Public Domain Images
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THE AI ANGLE
Spurring the creation of an alternative archive of human-made artArkivism launched a public domain index containing millions of artworks, photographs, and videos from global archives. The platform allows users to find human-made items by typing descriptive phrases similar to chatbot queries. This gives artists and researchers an accessible tool to source historical assets instead of generating synthetic imagery.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Using natural language prompts to retrieve museum records shows how search habits shaped by chatbots can connect users to historical human works.Read the original at thisiscolossal.com Generate teaching or study materials
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