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I mean, fair play. It's probably the worst info graphic in history. 10/10, no notes

This can't be a real thing from LinkedIn, surely?? 😮

Me reading this: Wow this is incredible. I'll raise a glass to Tom Stoppard tonight, and tell Grace about how her life was saved by a play

Also me: 'Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved...' - well whose fault is that, Prof Baum?! Don't wait till he dies to tell everyone! Just email him!

Ooh fab thank you. Will send you a message!

Omg I *love* this! (Hello, person who runs the UoYLibrary account here!)

Do you sell them at the Pyramid Gallery? I can order online but if a non-posting option is available I'll pick some up in town.

This 2024 equivalent of this went down really well. It's an interactive advent calendar pointing at library resources, made by my team - I am biased but I think it's great! 🎁📚

Strong agree. 90% of it seems to be people telling anecdotes where NOTHING happens or pays off in any way, which have thousands of Likes and replies.

Screenshot of a text. There’s a picture message showing the unclaimed tooth still under the pillow, with a sad face emoji

Grace communicating her displeasure at the tooth fairy forgetting its duties for the second night in a row 😄

I've heard that particular ad described as 'an abomination' by someone else just yesterday 😄

A shamelessly opinion-led slide for a practical workshop… GenAI video will soon be ubiquitous. It will be incredibly easy to generate high quality video, and social media / ads etc will be full of them. We can differentiate ourselves in libraries, here, by NOT doing this. We can be the rare beacon of authenticity, of human-made content. The real ‘opportunity’ GenAI presents is in antithesis…

A slide from my (otherwise very practical) video marketing workshop for UKeIG today... 📚

The conflict between that, everything *else* Universities stand for usually, yet Universities feeling like they need to embrace GenAI so as not to get left behind or to fail to prepare students for the workforce, lives rent-free in my head.

Screenshot from 404media. Headline is "AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge" Pullquote is "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

Can't stop thinking about this quote, from @maggietokudahall.bsky.social.

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

(Read the full article here: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...)

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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

What could go wrong?
The software, used by school libraries as catalogs, added new features including “AI-driven automation and contextual risk analysis,” which includes “sensitive material marker” & a “traffic-light risk ratings” system.
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

A grotesque red jelly containing lychees with blueberries in them that look like hideous decaying eyes

Alice made eyeball jelly last night - is this not the worst thing you’ve ever seen

This remains the only user-facing-context in which I've ever used the words 'Boolean Logic'... 📚

(or in this case boooooolean logic!)

Right? 😄

Ha, good point...

Cos I'm quite specific about what I say about GenAI (you should see the number of draft blog posts I have about it that I've not hit publish on 😄) and I wouldn't say *that*.

And honestly it's a terrible sentence anyway which I don't want attributed to me either way...

Here's the article with the false quote: journals.ala.org/index.php/ru...

Here's my 2013 piece that is on the subject of marketing and mayonnaise but doesn't mention AI at all: www.libraryjournal.com/story/market...

Do I email the editor, try and get in touch with the author, or what..?

"A humorous article in Library Journal puts it well: “market the library like Hellmann’s markets mayonnaise—market everywhere and make your brand the first thing people associate with meeting an information need—or, if you’re positioningas an AI hub, with ‘AI’ itself.”

Bluesky, help me out... What would you do about a totally fabricated quote attributed to you in a journal article?

I suspect the author has used GenAI to research their article and it just made this (frankly tortuous) quote up - the article it cites is from 2013! I had no concept of GenAI then.

Hope it’s a fab first day!

Really struggling to find the words about this...

Any industry that was based entirely on compensation-free theft would die if it had to ask for use permission. Of course it would. Up until now, in all of human history, that's been a given.

It's how it *should* be, no?

Nailed it 😀

YouTube video by Troy Hawke CHISWICK | GREETERS GUILD | TROY HAWKE

This is fabulous. Have you ever seen the UK comedian Troy Hawke? He’s like a sort of human version of this.

youtu.be/brhCaBC7Cpg?...

First favourite tree klaxon!

CILIP: the library and information association UKeiG CPD Zoom Course: Alternatives to PowerPoint, presented by Ned Potter

Registrations close tonight for my Alternatives to PowerPoint course with UKeIG! www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Thursday lunchtime.

We'll look mainly at the interactive Menti, the divisive Prezi, the massively underrated Sway, and Google Slides (with its useful Q&A feature), should be good.

During early pandemic times when the library first reopened but many people couldn’t travel to it, I did one as a sort of sounds of the library thing and people LOVED it! People said they could finally research again when they put it on etc.

(Doing it was really weird experience tho!)

Like a Study With Me thing? They’re a popular thing!