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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Ethan Penny and Dan Milmo

SHOCKING: Oxford lets openai train its ai models on bodleian library | Mind Blowing Facts

The OpenAI logo displayed on a cell phone in front of an image generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has been digitising material from Oxford’s Bodleian Library to populate its training set. Photograph: Michael Dwyer/AP

The University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical texts from its Bodleian Library, as tech companies scour academic institutions for fresh data.

The Bodleian material digitised by OpenAI has been used to “populate the OpenAI training set”, according to internal documents.

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