Pretty funny that in 2006 people said libraries and librarians were obsolete because of search engines and now the internet is nothing but AI that will tell you glue is a food group
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I remember interviewing a Saskatchewan politician circa 2016 who used this argument to justify sweeping budget cuts to libraries (they reversed the cuts shortly afterward). It sounded ignorant then and it would sound positively malicious now.
Watching Norwegian news outlets implement AI «summaries» into every single article is breaking my brain. The article is 120 words long asswipe, pretty sure I can figure out the gist
Libraries as a building full of books are indeed obsolete. Libraries as a place where you can contact a librarian are not.
Librarians are not only experts in information storage and retrieval, but in evaluating the reliability of conflicting information sources.
Librarians are invaluable, but I get a chuckle about the time I was trying to find a citation to something I had added to Wikipedia and I called up the reference desk for help. The librarian referred me back to the article I had just revised. 😁
I HATE that Acrobat and others keep suggesting that I let their AI summarize a document I open. I will NEVER let that happen. My education was full of critical thinking — including at home from Dad — so I can think for myself, and I want to.
I love that everyone thinks "A.I." has some sort of ability to think. It's literally just an overpowered search engine at this point. It may become something interesting in the future, but it's kinda dumb in the present.
Half of my LiS training in college was HOW to search for things properly on the net, how to use archives, stuff like that- and now a bunch of that is worthless thanks to 'AI'. Fuckin dumb
Ever noticed that Google searches, at least in the past I don't know I haven't used it in a long time, would say it came back with 3.5 million results and yet if you clicked through the pages there would be maximum 50 pages of results and then it would just end? The internet is being deleted
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Librarians are not only experts in information storage and retrieval, but in evaluating the reliability of conflicting information sources.
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” So goes the quote from librarian Jo Godwin