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law librarian, legal writing prof, legal tech skeptic/addict in Columbus OH. Writing & researching about the ways tech enables access to information. I enjoy bikes, books, and birds. she/her. join a union.
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I got this too and have heard from two others who did as well, fairly wide-flung. Vile stuff, and Substack should be ashamed.
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Yes!! I was afraid to ask too. I told our security person about it in case the school was being targeted, but sounds like it may have been broader.
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How many more times are they going to profile this SAME couple?! It’s weird.
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Hey, I know that kid! (Thank you for adding the sticker)
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Thanks for this thread; I think librarians are some of the most AI skeptical, which is not bad necessarily, but worth thinking through collectively. Also, check out KL3M for a copyright clean model. arxiv.org/abs/2504.07854
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Oh darn… I clearly need to do more play testing
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i'm not a lawyer, is it considered good practice to include the ChatGPT "here you go! let me know if you need anything else!" paragraph in your brief that also has at least nine citations to cases that don't exist? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Here's the game. You can do some very simple practice on and/or/not, proximity, and parentheses. gemini.google.com/share/436f0d...
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Yuck. I think giving all the assistants female names is kinda related too. (Until the assistants got more powerful, and then they started getting male names. Weird)
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oof yes. I finally put my head down and tried to figure out what people meant when they say "agents" and they could mean at least four different things, most of which are not new.
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Some are trying! This is the best I've seen (randomly controlled trial, comparing law students using AI vs. law students not using AI). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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At the top of my list: "AI won’t replace lawyers — but lawyers who use AI will replace those who don’t." I don't like it because I think it elides that there *will* be job losses and employee contractions as people figure out what AI can do.
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Here’s the story from elsewhere if you cancelled your wapo sub www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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Yes, thanks for mentioning both of these points, and totally agree! I'm personally happy that I may get to reference CustomGPTs in the last few weeks of class of my legal tech class, and also just wanted educators to be aware this is circulating!
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A few more helpful Plus features:
- Consistent Access: No peak-time delays
- Faster Responses: Snappier replies
- Priority Access: Early feature rollouts
- Voice Mode: Real-time convos
- Data Tools: Analyze, chart, edit
- Tasks: Built-in to-do lists
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To put the student offer in context, here are some of the perks of paid accounts:
- Custom GPTs: Build task-specific AI tools
- Deep Research: AI-powered multi-step web research
- Higher Limits: More queries, better models, bigger uploads
- Projects: Organize chats by topic
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I love to see it docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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We have one in our library! It always makes me smile to walk by it.
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I had some homemade Turkish delight, made by a Turkish bakery, and to my surprise it was actually good. I felt double-gaslit.
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If you don't have a child of this age in your life, a bit of context - *every* birthday invite we get is like this. I don't know for sure, but I think we're all doing some mix of Canva/basic image editing/buying bootleg templates.