This study looks at how higher education faculty are contributing their content and services to AI applications, with separate data sets for contributions to commercial AI companies, university applications, trade and professional association efforts, and more information efforts among academic peers.  The study also examines how faculty view contributing to AI applications, and whether they believe that their content may have already been used without their consent.  The study measures paid sales or licenses to AI applications, as well as gratis contributions.

The study also looks at the issue of the development of libraries or archives of prompts for ChatGPT, Bard and other applications, and defines the percentage of faculty participating in such activities.  AI applications perform only as well as their end users enable them to, and a new emerging form of intellectual property – AI application prompts – are a fertile area for department chair, research offices, teaching and learning centers,  institutional digital repositories and academic libraries.