Chloe Veltman writes: “Boston Public Library (BPL) is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its trove of historically significant government documents more accessible to the public. BPL plans to digitize 5,000 documents by the end of the year. Researchers at the Harvard Law School Library’s Institutional Data Initiative are training new artificial intelligence (AI) models to help libraries enhance the searchability of their collections. AI companies help fund these efforts, and in return get to train their large language models on high-quality materials that are out of copyright.”