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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Careful vs Careless: Library Custodians and Artificial Readers as part of Library Making as Practice, at distro, Basel, 5–17 November 2025. With the Library of Inclusions and Omissions, Monoskop, The Piracy Project, Public Library / Memory of the World, a.o. Organised by Lucie Kolb and Maria Maddalena Lenzi. "Large Language Models have, in a sense, created the ultimate (un)ideal readers for electronic libraries. By treating e-libraries as vast training datasets, algorithmic scraping has become both the fulfilment and the ruin of a core dream in public library culture: that access to books should be free and unlimited for all. AI systems read everything and nothing, at inhuman scale and speed — extracting patterns and selling what they pretend to know as consequence. What once symbolised a democratic promise now risks feeding extractive logics that empty reading of meaning. So, why should we care — and if we do, how can we put that care into p

Monoskop Monoskop From Monoskop Jump to navigation Jump to search Welcome to Monoskop , a wiki for arts and studies. EastUnBloc Sites Wikis Video Television Radio Publishing Libraries Social media Internet Technofeminisms Decolonial aestheSis East Central Europe Performance 1990s Activism Free software, libre culture 🃦 June 2026 Amsterdam The INC Exit Fest conference and party celebrates the departure of the 22 year-old Institute of Network Cultures from the HvA polytech to become an indy-autonomous centre as NGO/cultural organization. OT301, Spui25 & online, 24-26 June. [1] Berlin For

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