AI Roundup: Libraries AI Literacy Hackathon Expands Educational Resources; Current LLMs “Undertrained by a Factor of Maybe 100–1,000X or More” Says OpenAI Co-Founder; & More News Headlines
Carnegie Mellon UniversityLibraries AI Literacy Hackathon Expands Educational Resources (via CMU Libraries)EbooksAmazon is Filled With Garbage Ebooks. Here’s How They Get Made. (via Vox)Facebook & MetaFacebook Wrongly Labels Photographs of Auschwitz Victims as Showing ‘Bullying’ and ‘Nudity’ (via The Telegraph)
Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted (via The NY Times)Large Language Models (LLMs)Current LLMs “Undertrained b
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Library news
C4DISC Launches a “Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Editorial Roles and Peer Review”
EveryLibrary and EveryLibrary Announces New Board Members, : Archive of Japanese Americans Detained In Internment Camps is Available Online”; and More Headlines
Camp, Paquette, and Shableski Join EveryLibrary Board & EveryLibrary Institute Welcomes Hickson, Kemper, Marcus, and Tikiwala to Board of Directors; ALPSP’s Learned Publishing Journal to Transition to Gold OA in 2025; & More Head
Camp, Paquette, and Shableski Join EveryLibrary Board & EveryLibrary Institute Welcomes Hickson, Kemper, Marcus, and Tikiwala to Board of Directors; ALPSP’s Learned Publishing Journal to Transition to Gold OA in 2025; & More Head
National Center For Health Statistics (NCHS) Launches New Public Health Topic Database
Report: “OpenAI’s ‘SearchGPT’ Might Launch Soon and Feature GPT-4-Lite”
New Journal Article: “The Prevalence of Textbook Affordability and OER Initiatives at ARL Libraries”
NLM Welcomes Applications to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2025
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Announce the Publication of “The ARL/CNI 2035 Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures in the Research Environment”
“Inside Libraries’ Battle For Better E-Book Access”; “Knowledge Unlatched Presents Open Access Heroes 2024 and Usage Increase of 20%”; & More Headlines
AI Roundup: Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Digitally Preserving Historic Archives; Why RAG Won’t Solve Generative AI’s Hallucination Problem; & More Headlines
Request For Contributions: National Library of Australia Seeks a Complete Collection of Every Australian Published Work
Harvard Business Review Article: “AI’s Trust Problem”
New Journal Article: “A Dataset For Measuring the Impact of Research Data and Their Curation”
