…&, most recently,
- Degrades not just trust in, but the ability to critically engage w/, determine the value of, categorize, and intentionally sincerely consider new ways of organizing & understanding facts to produce knowledge. That is, overreliance on "gen AI" breaks down critical thinking skills
Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
Understanding these “tools” aren’t fit for purpose is key.
A critical approach is necessary.
In the immediate short term for an individual researcher? Sure.
But reference archivists are dealing with an influx of requests for records that don’t exist. Proving a citation is incorrect takes time (especially with archival collections which are complex)
It also undermines trust.
This is what we are dealing with as reference archivists. A complete fabrication of the archive.
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
"With Nexus, Clarivate are essentially integrity-washing synthetic text, giving it an academic sheen without any academic rigour." www.hughrundle.net/does-clariva...
Research has shown the significant hidden toll of poor office design on productivity, health and employee retention.
Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53
Argh! I love it! ❤️
I also love that you can see me in my dumb straw hat reflected in its eye 👀👀👀
Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) Novice to Know-How (N2KH) training provides a structured learning pathway to build confidence and practical skills #DigitalPreservation
Librarians are wonderful. “Use AI to explore. Use libraries to verify. Use your brain to evaluate.”
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
comparia.beta.gouv.fr is so awesome for AI literacy - it makes it so easy to get a sense of different models, rate their responses on accuracy etc, then see what the models were and how they compare, plus the carbon footprint of your queries (as on the screenshot) #FF2025
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
A yellow orchid with four petals and a dark maroon interior. White text reads "this orchid is a new species."
When David Alejandro Sánchez Gómez photographed this orchid in Colombia, he didn't know how special it would turn out to be. 🧵⤵️
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Somebody asked about this on another platform – and I'm once again grateful to libraries for reinvigorating anti-algorithmic means of discovery :)
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
Everything #GideonHaigh says. The unrepentant carelessness and spiritual emptiness of the library’s decision makers (and the government that put them there) is jawdropping: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit.
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
I recorded a video for my #SLVResidency on hacking the SLV website. It talks about looking beneath the hood of #GLAM websites to try and imagine alternatives & fix problems. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/resources/hack-website-video-tim-sherratt #libraries #digitalHumanities
If you want to know more about how we built the cooperative that supports @transkribus.bsky.social, and how coops are a way to actually operationalise responsible AI, then please read our paper, which was the basis of my talk. This is about community open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-16
Would I could find a fine frog!
Woohoo! Great #DigiPres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks
