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Are you getting your news from AI? You might want to reconsider that…
New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The CBC and Radio-Canada were participating organizations. The actual report is…
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Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers (but are they, really?)
As reported by Ars Technica, with many more details in the White Paper (PDF) written by the Science Press Package team, SciPak. I have no reason to doubt the findings, but do note the caveats that appear in the paper itself, that, This does not mean that the LLM has no potential value as a…
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How are information professionals in the UK using Generative AI?
A recent report from CILIP, the Library and Information Association in the UK, provides results from a small survey of 162 “information professionals” in the UK from late 2024. AI and the UK Library Profession: Survey Report 2025 runs 33 pages long, but much of that consists of selected open-text responses to the survey. I…
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New Survey Report Shows How Library Workers Use AI in Ontario
A new report shows how Ontario library professionals are using AI tools in their day-to-day work and their perspectives on these burgeoning technologies. See the press release and access the 8-page PDF at https://ocul.on.ca/ai-machine-learning-2025-survey-report Surely Ontario isn't unique? This is one of the first reports I recall seeing that includes at least a few specifics…