NFTs and AI Are Unsettling the Very Concept of History
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NFTs and AI Are Unsettling the Very Concept of History

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As an archivist, I’m excited about what disruptive innovations like nonfungible tokens and artificial intelligence may mean for archives. Not 30 seconds after we first met, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle asked me, "Want to put your film archives online for free?" While we see and touch massive digital archives online, most archives are still largely undigitized collections of physical media like film, video, music, photographs, and paper documents. Law professor Tonya M. Evans optimistically suggests that crypto art offers Black artists and communities opportunities to bypass white art gatekeepers and "capture and own the value of the culture that they produce." While the current boom may well go the way of the 1920s Florida land-rush hype, NFTs are the first step in what's likely to be a robust market for unique or scarce digital objects.

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NFTs are suddenly everywhere, but they have some big problems
3 years, 8 months ago

NFTs are suddenly everywhere, but they have some big problems

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CNN Business — For several weeks, it’s been near impossible to exist on the internet without at least hearing a mention of NFTs. “The system will not work if simply the first person to mint an NFT for a digital asset gets acknowledged on the blockchain as its owner,” said Neil Daswani, co-director of Stanford University’s Advanced Security Certification Program. …

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