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Left: "The "Piebald" Horse" by Paulus Potter, 1650, CC0 1.0, Getty. Right: "The Dells, Chimney Rock by unknown artist, 1900, CC0 1.0, Getty.

Open Heritage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Brigitte Vézina, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson Open Culture

This digitally manipulated photograph shows a couple looking out over what appears to be some kind of planetary landscape. The artist utilizes geometric forms and collage to explore themes of space exploration, utopia, science, the future, and the negative consequences of the unknown. — "Χωρίς τίτλο" by Stefanos Michaelides, 2011, Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

The recent emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had a phenomenal impact on CHIs, especially as the content they steward is accessed and used for AI development. One key question centers on the conditions, norms, and expectations governing the use of openly licensed and public domain cultural heritage materials as data for AI development.