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  • Have you trained an AI?

    Thanks to Mita Williams for pointing to this Washington Post article that makes it trivial to search and see whether any sites you're affiliated with have been used to train "Google’s C4 data set, a massive snapshot of the contents of 15 million websites that have been used to instruct some high-profile English-language AIs, called…

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  • Hydrator is dead. Thanks for nothing, Elno

    Ed Summers reports on the GitHub repository for Hydrator that,  Twitter's changes to their API which greatly reduce the amount of read-only access means that the Hydrator is no longer a useful application. The application keys, which functioned for the last 7 years, have been rescinded by Twitter. Today sucks 🙁

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  • ChatGPTLibrarian is still finding his (its?) voice

    One of my alerts just tripped over a new blog called ChatGPTLibrarian. The site was launched in March 2023 by librarian Victor Santiago, and I think he's still trying to decide if he's going to write as him, or as an AI-assisted author. The header of each page reads, Welcome to ChatGPTLibrarian, a blog dedicated…

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  • Bing Chat and a quick Library Metadata test

    I just got access to Bing Chat, so let's see what it can do in the library world. I found myself on the monthly AI4LAM Community Call first thing this AM, and the topic was the use of ChatGPT in Libraries, Archives and Museums. While not my area of expertise, one of the examples shared…

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  • New Artificial Intelligence LibGuide

    I wish I'd put it together, but it was my colleague, Bronte Chiang, who just released this fantastic LibGuide on Artificial Intelligence. It's not a hard-science guide, but "…has been created for students and instructors to explore how to responsibly and ethically use AI in their work. There is information about how to critically engage…

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