Notice on AI

This archive does not use or support generative "AI" (LLMs*). The website, scrapers, and search system are all human-made and managed. Content created by LLMs is often incorrect or misleading, and cannot be used as a substitute for research created by humans. This holds especially true for something as important and nuanced as government data.

I do currently use one machine learning model for the generation of video transcripts—an automatic speech recognition tool called Whisper. Understanding that errors may occur, each transcript has the original recording included, as well as a notice to inform users that content has been automatically generated. Most transcription errors are a result of incorrectly differentiating homophones (ie. interpreting "go to" as "go two"), as happens with all transcription tools. If you notice any larger issues, please email me and I will do a manual correction.

Machine learning has been used for a long time in transcriptions due to more reliable output, giving me a reason to use Whisper. I am otherwise distancing this archive far away from the "AI everything" fad/bubble.

*when people talk about "AI", they typically mean LLMs (Learning Language Models). Artificial intelligence has been incorrectly used as a marketing buzzword; ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Grok, etc. are not "intelligent". They do not think or reason, they simply string together words in a way that mimicks the patterns and syntax of human writing.

Usage of archive data by other websites

As this archive is a public resource, data hosted here may be used by other websites and tools who use AI. Their usage of the archive is unofficial, and while their usage is allowed, it is not an endorsement by me or the archive.