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"The academy, along with an entire ed tech enterprise, is slowly and unevenly reorganizing itself around AI-mediated search, research, and writing. These changes are unfolding whether we as individuals and our organizations endorse or reject them." How many times do we need to hear this take?

AI Skepticism Makes Moral and Practical Sense. We Should Still Move Full Speed Ahead.When it comes to AI in academic libraries, we’ve organized ourselves into a polarity: skepticism vs. enthusiasm. Our professional future depends on our figuring out not how to resolve that tension, bu...katinamagazine.org
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I tried to read this with an open mind. I really did. But with sentences like the above and the repeated structure of "yes AI does do this bad thing, but..." I shouldn't have bothered.

Ответ для Matthew Noe

I also couldn't help but laugh-sigh at this. Not only is the comparison whack but it comes at a time when I keep seeing library after library, consultant after consultant, run away from the commitments to DEI they touted. Shit, most places gave up after two uncomfortable conversations 4 years ago.

Ответ для Matthew Noe

Did they really say "librarians know your place"

Ответ для Matthew Noe

Right? Complete conflation of 'it's important to be informed about the information landscape' with 'it's important to use any and all available tools regardless of their efficacy, ethics, or impact on the world/our profession/knowledge production.

Ответ для Deborah

Full disclosure that I haven't read the article (yet, anyway), just seen this argument presented many many times...

"cognitive automation" That's a new one on me. Cognition can be offloaded, but automated?

Ответ для Boxo McFoxo

Ah, apparently it's a term that predates LLMs but has only ever been used by the tech industry, until ChatGPT.