Author: Paul R. Pival
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Trying Trinka for automatic citation checking
Last week some colleagues and I were discussing the use of AI in library services, and someone wondered if there was a tool that would automatically and correctly check a list of citations to see if any were, in fact, hallucinations. I'm pretty sure the more robust bibliographic management tools can tell you whether your…
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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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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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Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data Liberation Project
Not to be confused with Canada's Data Liberation Initiative, Jeremy Singer-Vine is spending his time on the Data Liberation Project, "an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest." There's not yet a lot to look at there, but there's plenty in the pipeline. I just attended a…
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How to cite ChatGPT
Last week, a colleague forwarded the following from a listserv, where someone was asking how to cite ChatGPT using IEEE style. A response from another user, – I can’t speak to IEEE style yet, but a colleague of mine reached out to APA’s style experts just yesterday to ask how to handle citing ChatGPT in…
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Re-running the Scholarly Kitchen Interview with ChatGPT
Yesterday, Todd Carpenter posted a transcript of his interview with ChatGPT on the Scholarly Kitchen blog. I thought it would be fun to see how much the answers would change when asked again. I'll make the same disclaimer he did, "You can review for yourself whether you think the responses are good ones or not…