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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Not on exhibitions, but close:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Here in Denmark we recently had an example of a new book for children, officially authored by a well known and well liked person who has previously done books and nature
TV programs for smaller children, usually on a sound natural history basis. This time was different.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The book was about animals that get out of zoos and what that can lead to, and as a children’s book of course it had to depend heavily on its illustrations. But adequate
photos were not available, and human artists are expensive, so the (also well known and respected) publisher agreed with the author to let AI do the illustrations. It was a disaster. Antelopes and deer with five legs, a hyena with hooves, a bear with a set
of teeth that seems to come out of an ‘Alien’ movie and so forth. A man who seems to be eating his own hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The author claims that he had looked it over and corrected some things like a tiger with horizontal stripes, but that he had been caught by the novelty of the idea,
and the book was released and published. There was an uproar from zoologists and parents alike, and the usually popular author had the unusual experience to have enraged parents calling him on the phone, also because the AI had been very imaginative and taken
the horror and splatter elements of the stories seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The publishing company say that they learned a lesson, and the author says likewise. The good and noteworthy thing here is that nobody tried to shrug the thing off and
say they were not responsible. They were. AI is a tool, and you are responsible for what it has generated for you when you afterwards release it. The book in question was pulled back from the market and will now be remade with human-made illustrations. Those
who bought the horror-version will have an opportunity to have it exchanged with the new one, free of charge of course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Tom Schiøtte</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">DK 2100 Copenhagen OE</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">+45 35 32 10 48</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><a href="mailto:TSchioette@snm.ku.dk">TSchioette@snm.ku.dk</a></span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sullivan, Steven<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 18. december 2025 16:14<br>
<b>To:</b> Thor Martin Jensen <thormj@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Where should museums draw the line with generative AI?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for engaging in further discussion. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm not worried about a tool that helps an expert be more efficient. A transcript that can be vetted by the writer or team is useful, whether written by a human or AI, but the final product needs to be a human product, especially anything
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<p class="MsoNormal">AI images have similar issues. If a real artist wants to use AI to explore compositions, great. I don't see a difference between that and cutting our magazine pictures or sketching from life when it's the brainstorming stage. But the
images used in the exhibit should be creditable to a human expert. The SF airport example should have never made it beyond a workshop draft.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Even analog recreations have challenges. In one of my galleries, there is an enlarged to show detail mouse recreation. To my eye, it looks like a good-quality child's toy. Many (maybe most) visitors can't identify or describe any particular
feature that looks fake; they think it is real. As a result, questions about (and emotional responses to) giant mice become central to the exhibit, distracting from the intended points. As signs noting that this diorama is fake get bigger and more prominent,
our pedagogical goals are better realized. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our visitors trust us, and whatever happens in our institutions. We have to find ways to help them differentiate between fake and real. So many of our visitors engage with AI without any training in its pitfalls, yet it is packaged in
a way that seems trustworthy and fun, and it's often given logistical preference over any other research tools. I would not be surprised to find (this is a study that could be done) that AI/LLM search results pulled up at a museum are deemed more accurate
than in some other setting. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If anything, museums should be pushing against some uses of AI because it's not possible to ensure accurate results from the interfaces they use (eg LLMs, digital assistants). It seems the average visitor is more likely to misunderstand
our exhibits because of most current AI use, since there's often few useful answers but scores of red herrings and wrong answers. The analog training we can provide is often key to obtaining accurate digital results.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On a public nature walk, I encouraged people to track our observations using an app that uses AI to make identifications. When I use the app, it is often pretty accurate, approaching 100% for some taxa. However, when I reviewed the identifications
with individuals on trail and later looked at the uploaded aggregate, a large percentage of the AI-generated IDs were wrong. Sometimes they were wildly wrong, like an insect being IDed as a plant. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Unsurprisingly, the quality of the photo matters and many people, despite having amazing and simple to use cameras, can't take a good/useful picture. Visitors often don't know enough to input data (be it images or queries) effectively
*and* they don't know enough to vet the information AI returns. You might think that everyone can tell the difference between a plant and an animal, but katydids exist so a marmorated stinkbug identified as a sycamore means, to a user who is newly learning,
that walking sycamore leaves must be real, too.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Museums are the stewards of authentic objects that allow humanity to objectively understand parts of the past, interpret the present, and anticipate the future. AI, as a tool, may support this in many ways, but front-of-house, direct-to-consumer
AI, or whole-cloth AI products in our galleries damages all of this. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 7:17<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM Thor Martin Jensen <<a href="mailto:thormj@gmail.com">thormj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">Thank you for the detailed response. Your examples of AI-generated worksheets and misdirected questions are exactly the kind of failures that concern me. Systems generating content that sounds plausible but fundamentally misunderstands
what the institution actually holds or teaches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">I appreciate your point about trust. Museums are among the most trusted institutions precisely because visitors know a person with expertise made choices about what to show and how to explain it. Breaking that chain is risky.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">On your concern about the listserv format, you're right that BCC prevents "reply all." That was unintentional. I genuinely wanted discussion, not just promotion. I should have used a format that allowed group conversation. My mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">On translation, you're absolutely right that automation has weaknesses, especially with specialized terminology. At Walkie Talkie, we don't just run content through a translator. Museums review and edit translations before publishing.
The AI handles the first draft to make 38 languages feasible; curators ensure accuracy. It's a production tool, not a replacement for expertise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Your calculator analogy is useful. AI as efficiency tool is reasonable. AI as creative authority is problematic. The line matters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thor Martin Bærug<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We've had teachers use AI programs that supposedly analyze our website to generate grade-appropriate worksheets for the students to fill out while visiting the galleries. Of course 99% of the information in our galleries is not on our
website. Maybe we would want to change this in the future as the web and its use evolves but, presently, the bot/app has no idea what to productively compose, based on our site. This does not stop a LLM from generating 10-20 questions, though.
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<p class="MsoNormal">At best, the AI questions are answerable but don't relate to anything in our institution (eg, questions about dinosaurs when we have no fossils more recent than the Silurian, or magnetism when the closest we get is a magnetic wall that
holds pictures in place to allow visitors to tell a story about the prairie). Many of the questions are contextually pointless: "Why does the museum use magnets to teach?" Often, though, the sentences are arguably grammatically correct but conceptually convoluted:
"How can taxidermists address resource management and climate change in biomes? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Similarly, much of the information visitors get from AI is simply wrong. It seems the longer the conversation, the more incorrect or misdirected the results get, the more they may support misapprehensions (like snakes will chase you, bear
encounters are deadly, and outdoor domesticated cats can integrate with natural ecosystems.) Granted, Wikipedia used to have a mistake in nearly every natural history article and it's now often pretty useful. I expect AI to similarly improve. That said,
I won't ever publish or reference a Wikipedia article as I make exhibits, nor should any AI generated labels ever be used. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have found AI to be useful in brainstorming categories, rendering draft layouts, finding grey literature or other precedent work that can be inspirational to me but is hard to find online (like policy and procedure papers) and otherwise
automating draft tasks. It can also interpret cursive handwriting well enough to help me get unstuck, and as a translation aid, but the transcriptions of both are still full of mistakes. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Like a calculator, AI might have value in the creation process. But, the way a calculator is used, it is not necessary to cite it and the operator needs to understand the operations they are automating with the tool. If the use of AI
goes beyond that of an efficiency tool to that of a creative tool, it must be cited, but it also probably shouldn't be used. The abhorrent AI exhibit at the San Francisco airport is an example that puts our whole industry at risk. Most of our visitors find
us among the most trustworthy of institutions. Many of our visitors recognize that publically accessible AI information is mostly trash (and with that exhibit, find the deficiencies in "professional" AI, too). They also value the human hand in our creative
products. At the very least, to maintain the public trust, it's important for us to minimize AI content in any published work. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The number one question we get is "Is this real?" We should be able to answer "Yes" for both objects and their labels and data. AI can't ever do that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wrote all of the above before noticing your disclaimer line. Maybe translation is useful. I used to be a translator, though, and have found weakness in all automation I've ever tried, especially when nuance and specialization are required.
That said, you used our industry listserv to spam us, since there is no "reply all" button; seeing that I was only replying to you made me look closer at the sub-signature bits. This makes it seem like you are not interested in actual public discussion, just
promotion. This seems to align with the perception that AI, its users, and creators, are largely bad actors in a variety of ways. I have not included the listserv address because maybe you just don't know how to work the technology and didn't intend to spam
us and will rectify the issue and engage in actual discussion. It's an important topic that is proceeding faster than policy or awareness and so far, at least in my institution, causes more problems than solutions. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A growing number of startups are building museum solutions built entirely on AI-generated interpretation. Visitors ask questions, and a language model generates personalized explanations on the fly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This fundamentally changes what a museum is. Instead of encountering institutional expertise, visitors receive algorithmic predictions optimized for engagement. The museum’s voice, built on research and accountability, gets replaced by
pattern matching across training data that the institution never reviewed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Where does production end and interpretation begin? Translation and transcription clearly help museums reach more people. But generating explanations of objects based on visitor questions?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wrote more here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/walkietalk-ie_museums-curation-audioguides-activity-7407049070478852096-KUfB" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/walkietalk-ie_museums-curation-audioguides-activity-7407049070478852096-KUfB</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How are others thinking about this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thor Martin Bærug<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Co-founder, Walkie Talkie<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://walkietalk.ie/" target="_blank">walkietalk.ie</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Full disclosure: I run Walkie Talkie, a multilingual audio guide platform for museums. We use AI for translation and text-to-speech but keep all interpretation with museum staff. I have a commercial interest in how this question gets
answered, but I genuinely want to hear how the field is thinking about these boundaries.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Miami University</span></b><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Connecting you to the nature in your neighborhood...and the world.</span></i><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050"><a href="https://www.miamioh.edu/cca/museums-miami/index.html" target="_blank">Miami's
many museums and collections</a> provide unique, cross-disciplinary opportunities for students, educators, and the public. </span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Hefner Museum recognizes the Myaamia and Shawnee people who, along with other indigenous groups, were the
<a href="http://miamioh.edu/diversity-inclusion/land/index.html" target="_blank">
first stewards of this land's biodiversity.</a></span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Director
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Museum of Natural History</a> </span></i><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Miami University</span></b><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">100 Upham Hall
</span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">100 Bishop Circle</span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Oxford, OH 45056</span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://securelb.imodules.com/s/916/lg21/form.aspx?sid=916&gid=1&pgid=6010&cid=11236&dids=292&bledit=1" target="_blank">Support
the Museum today!</a></span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Connecting you to the nature in your neighborhood...and the world.</span></i><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050"><a href="https://www.miamioh.edu/cca/museums-miami/index.html" target="_blank">Miami's
many museums and collections</a> provide unique, cross-disciplinary opportunities for students, educators, and the public. </span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Hefner Museum recognizes the Myaamia and Shawnee people who, along with other indigenous groups, were the
<a href="http://miamioh.edu/diversity-inclusion/land/index.html" target="_blank">
first stewards of this land's biodiversity.</a></span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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