Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library

Summary

The University of Oxford allowed OpenAI to use historical texts from the Bodleian Library to train its AI models, according to internal documents. The partnership was announced in March 2025 as a digitisation project, but the announcement did not state the material would be used for training. By June 2025, 125,000 images from historical dissertations had been shared with OpenAI.

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