(31 Aug 2024) A new report from the Data Provenance Initiative, a volunteer collective of AI researchers, shines a light on what’s happening with all that data. The report, “Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons,” notes that a significant number of organizations that feel threatened by generative AI are taking measures…
(29 Aug 2024) The latest LTI white paper aims to gain a better understanding of the place of AI literacy in information literacy instruction. With increased discussions around generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, librarians are now confronted with accessible AI technology that students are using to offset their research and writing…
(6 Aug 2024) Robert Cawston, Director of Digital and Service Transformation, introduces a new AI Statement for the National Library of Scotland. “Our AI statement was created as a guide to the Llbrary’s decision-making on how we employ AI tools, communicate about our use of AI, collect AI-generated material, and allow our data to be…
(5 Aug 2024) OpenAI has already built and tested a tool to detect whether any written content has been created using ChatGPT. But the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is holding back the tool from public release because of several concerns. The tool adds a pattern to how the large language model (LLM) writes its…
Artificial-intelligence developers are buying access to valuable data sets that contain research papers — raising uncomfortable questions about copyright. (14 Aug 2024) Academic publishers are selling access to research papers to technology firms to train artificial-intelligence (AI) models. Some researchers have reacted with dismay at such deals happening without the consultation of authors. The trend is raising…
(30 Jul 2024) Perplexity AI will soon start sharing advertising revenue with news publishers when its chatbot surfaces their content in response to a user query, a move that appears designed to assuage critics that have accused the startup of plagiarism and unethical web scraping. Find out more here.
The explosive uptake of generative artificial intelligence in writing is raising difficult questions about when use of the technology should be allowed. (30 Jul 2024) The rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools — which create text in response to prompts — has raised questions about whether this constitutes plagiarism and under what…
Copyright Clearance Center’s AI re-use rights offer stands in its Annual Copyright Licenses subscription program for ‘millions of works.’ (16 Jul 2024) Even as lawsuits and tense exchanges go on around unlicensed use of copyrighted content to train their LLMs (large language models), the United States-based Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) today (July 16) has announced a…
(26 Jul 2024) OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet. SearchGPT is just a “prototype” for now. The service is powered by the GPT-4 family of models and will only be accessible to 10,000 test users at launch, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla…
Artificial intelligence has the potential to impact many functions of the library. Are librarians ready to seize the opportunities? (24 Jul 2024) AI has the potential to impact libraries across many aspects of the information research workflow, such as searching and research, library reference services, circulation, and cataloguing, among others. It is with this…