Deadline February 7, 2024 The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Musuem (ALPLM) is hiring an Exec II – Oral Historian Manager. The incumbent will work closely with the Director of Research and Interpretation to document, preserve, make available the stories of Illinoisans. The ideal candidate will have a background in conducting and managing oral history […]
Deadline extended to February 2, 2024 The Southwest Oral History Association promotes an ever-shifting place and people-making storytelling capacity throughout time and across intergenerational consciousness. Through history and memory, we unearth and combat repressive settler ideologies. Just as both roots and branches strenghthen a tree, stories, memories and reflection center […]
Gates Archive is the private archive of the personal and philanthropic collections of the Gates family. Committed to creating a culture of learning and belonging, we are a team working to build a next generation archive with a focus towards digital-forward processes. The role will, under the direction of a Manager, be responsible for leading […]
The 2024 Oral History Center Introduction to Oral History Workshop will be held virtually via Zoom on Friday, March 8 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30.p.m. Pacific Time, with breaks woven in. Applications are now being accepted on a rolling basis. Please apply early, as spots fill up quickly. Apply here. This workshop is designed for […]
The Oral History Center at the University of California Berkeley Library are now accepting applications for our 2024 Advanced Institute on a rolling basis. Please apply early, as spots fill quickly. The Oral History Center is offering a virtual version of our one-week Advanced Institute on the methodology, theory, and practice of oral history. This will take […]
In a stunning, and visually beautiful post, The Conscious Style Guide explores the AI view of the world. For instance, the prompt “Indian man” generated mostly pictures of old men with beards.
If you are interested in honest, inclusive communication, this newsletter introduces you to new ideas, new players, and asks you to question what you are assuming with every word you say.
In the November, issue, an eye catching article examines how
“Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.”
My first question was who is Rest of World? You can find them at https://restofworld.org/about/
Rest of World is a nonprofit publication that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. We connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated.
Why “Rest of World”? It’s a corporate catchall term used in the West to designate “everyone else.” Companies use it to lump together people and markets outside wealthy Western countries. We like the term because it encapsulates the problems we fight head-on: a casual disregard for billions of people, and a Western-centric worldview that leaves an unthinkable number of insights, opportunities, and nuances out of the global conversation.
We aren’t generating images, but we are using AI to help capture the spoken word—so we can focus on capturing nuance, idioms, colloquialisms—the words that make the spoken word different from the written word. It’s disturbing to think that AI bias could be affecting the work we do.
Our transcriptionists take special care to listen carefully to what is said, and make sure that context and nuance are preserved. We’ve got to remain vigilant to watch for bias in the transcripts we work on.
