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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
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Guardrails don’t fit with scholarship
This is a fascinating summary of a big problem with some AI-enhanced library products: The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search (Aaron Tay). The link to the ACRLog post is also worth a read: “We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question”. In a nutshell, it appears that Microsoft Azure's OpenAI content filter,