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Editors’ Choice: The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI

Editors’ Summary: In “The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI,” published on Active History, Jacob Polay, Chloë Farr, and Jessica Jack critique talkie, a language model trained exclusively on pre-1931 English-language print sources and marketed as both a forecasting experiment and a chatbot “from 1930.” The authors argue that […]

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Editors’ Choice: Recognizing Women Historians’ Expertise – An Interview with the Co-Founders of Women Also Know History

Interview by Marilou Tanguay[1], Florence Prévost-Grégoire[2] and Catherine Larochelle[3] with Emily Prifogle and Karin Wulf, two of the co-founders of Women Also Know History. This interview was originally published in French on HistoireEngagee.ca. Last June, the historians behind the Twitter account and the hashtag #womenalsoknowhistory launched a website aimed at increasing the dissemination and use […]