Oxford Let OpenAI Train AI Models on Bodleian Library Texts
Oxford said the scans were small in scale and out of copyright as staff raised concerns about reputation and AI energy use.
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Oxford let OpenAI train AI models on Bodleian Library texts
Oxford has let OpenAI use old texts from its Bodleian Library to train its AI models, according to internal papers seen by the Guardian. Ethan Penny and Dan Milmo broke the story on Saturday. The papers say texts that OpenAI scanned at the library went into the firm’s training data. Oxford made its deal with OpenAI public […] This story continues at The Next Web
Report: Oxford Lets OpenAI Train Its AI Models On Historical Texts From the Bodleian Library
From The Guardian: 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. Oxford announced […] The post Report: Oxford Lets OpenAI Train Its AI Models On Historical Texts From the …
Oxford confirmed that the scanned texts of the Bodleiana Library also served to train OpenAI models, although the announcement of the agreement, published in March 2025, highlighted digitization and academic access. Internal documents cited by The Guardian revealed concerns among some of the staff, while the university held that the materials were small-scale, non-exclusive and copyright-free.
The University of Oxford has allowed OpenAI, the company behind chatbot ChatGPT, to train its artificial intelligence models using historical texts from its famous Bodleian library, the Guardian reported.
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