(11 Nov 2024) OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic all rely deeply on content from premium publishers to train the large language models, or LLMs, at the heart of their AI efforts, even as these companies have regularly underplayed their use of such copyrighted content, according to new research released this week from online publishing giant Ziff Davis. Ziff Davis owns…
(19 Nov 2024) Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help catalogers by automating the generation of metadata. AI could provide an opportunity to speed up description workflows. Yet there are numerous machine…
(14 Nov 2024) Researchers from a group of prestigious universities have devised guidelines for using large language models (LLMs) in academic writing. As LLMs become more common and easier to use, researchers around the world are using them to help with writing academic papers, especially for brainstorming and creating content. However, this raises concerns about…
(13 Nov 2024) Choice has a mission to help collection development librarians in higher education choose the best titles for their collections. Students and library vendors are pushing AI adoption in higher education, but there are very few resources that help librarians and scholars separate the wheat from the chaff. In this blog post, key…
(30 Nov 2024) In a report published today, with funding from STM Solutions and six of its member organizations, we explore how key stakeholders—publishers, technology disruptors, librarians, and scholars—think generative AI will change their practices and processes. The consensus among the individuals with whom we spoke is that generative AI will enable efficiency gains across the…
(7 Nov 2024) A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet to train its large language models. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said that the outlets could not show enough harm to support the lawsuit but…
At major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence. We need guidelines before things get out of hand. (5 Nov 2024) Since the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was released in late 2022, computer scientists have noticed a troubling trend: chatbots are increasingly used to…
(31 Oct 2024) OpenAI has launched its search engine, ChatGPT search. Here’s the announcement: You can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you would have previously needed to go to a search engine for. This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports…
Google and its rivals are increasingly employing AI-generated summaries, but research indicates their results are far from authoritative and open to manipulation (3 Nov 2024) Instead of scrolling through a list of webpages to find the answer to a question, the thinking goes, an AI chatbot can scour the internet for you, combing it for…
(17 Oct 2024) Ithaka S+R is excited to publish findings from our international survey of academic researchers, with a particular focus on those in the biomedical sciences. The survey, conducted with the support of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, provides a snapshot of researchers’ opinions about generative AI, how often they use it, which research tasks they use…