Editors’ Summary: This selection grapples with the difficulties of maintaining open access in the era of AI. The author identifies four ways that generative AI has affected open access resources: the intellectual harvest of cultural heritage, the infrastructure tax, the harvesting of physical collections, and the erosion of trust. She focuses on the erosion of trust between donors and institutions (such as libraries or museums) and argues that this is inevitable when institutions cannot offer guarantees that material will be protected from AI training.
Editors’ Choice: The Cost of Open by Default in the AI Era
