The Distant Librarian – Thoughts on technology and libraries

6/26/2023

Vaccine Injury Support Program – Statistics – not working in Wayback?

I've been using Visualping.io to watch for changes on the Vaccine Injury Support Program – Statistics page since I became aware of it, and I thought I was sending changes to the Wayback Machine as well, but after today's update I realized that when I visit the snapshot on Wayback, the captured page claims "No
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Posted Under: Data, Legal, Miscellaneous, Web/Tech
4/21/2023

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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Posted Under: AI, Discovery, Random Tech Tips, Social Networks
4/18/2023

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 The application keys, which functioned for the last 7 years, have been rescinded by Twitter.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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Posted Under: Scholarship, Social Networks, Web/Tech
4/4/2023

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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Posted Under: AI, Ideas, Weblogs
2/21/2023

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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Posted Under: AI, Discovery, Ideas, Scholarship, Web/Tech

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Vaccine Injury Support Program – Statistics – not working in Wayback?

Have you trained an AI?

Hydrator is dead. Thanks for nothing, Elno

ChatGPTLibrarian is still finding his (its?) voice

Bing Chat and a quick Library Metadata test