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The Librarian's Dividence (ALA Core Forum).pptx ✨The Librarian’s Dividend✨ Pathways towards Information Ethics and Literacy in the Age of Generative AI Casey Fiesler | casey.prof Image credit: OpenAI’s DALL-E and countless uncredited and uncompensa...

I know this probably isn't very useful since I don't even have speaker's notes, but here are the slides from that recent talk. The title was "The Librarian’s Dividend: Pathways towards Information Ethics and Literacy in the Age of Generative AI" docs.google.com/presentation...

This 👇🏻 #bibliosky

The Psychological Impact of Digital Isolation: How AI-Driven Social Interactions Shape Human Behavior and Mental Well-Being Felix Eling 3697-3705 Apr 30, 2025 Education The Psychological Impact of Digital Isolation: How AI-Driven Social Interactions Shape Human Behavior and Mental Well-Being Felix Eling Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Gulu College of Health Sciences, Gulu City, Northern Uganda DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.47772/IJRISS.2025.90400265 Received: 13 March 2025; Revised: 22 March 2025; Accepted: 25 March 2025; Published: 30 April 2025 ABSTRACT The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in social interactions has transformed how humans experience companionship, communication, and mental well-being. This review examines the psychological impact of AI-driven social interactions, focusing on virtual assistants, AI chatbots, and digital companions. It explores the benefits, risks, and ethical concerns associated with AI companionship. A systematic review methodology was employed, detailing inclusion criteria, databases searched, and analysis techniques. Findings suggest that while AI can offer emotional relief and support, over-reliance may disrupt real-world social bonding. Ethical concerns such as data privacy, emotional manipulation, and regulatory gaps are highlighted. The study underscores the need for balanced AI integration in human socialization. The study also addresses gaps in previous literature by examining AI’s influence on different demographic groups and cultural contexts.

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.

I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

Cognitive Imperialism

And in case you’re wondering the term cognitive imperialism was coined by Mi’kmaq scholar and educator Marie Battiste in 1986. The paper does NOT acknowledge that or give any other context for the term. link.springer.com/10.1007/978-...

There’s a peer reviewed published paper in AI & Society called Cognitive Imperialism and Artificial Intelligence which is clearly mostly AI-generated. Citations are real but almost all irrelevant. I emailed the editors weeks ago but it’s still up there and getting cited.

As academic search starts to do semantic search via dense embeddings you may notice many seem to lack prefilters or have a limited set compared to their lexical search versions. This is not a UI issue but a technical issue that is slowly being solved (1)

But I remain convinced that there is no future of verification and contextualization that doesn't involve both better understanding of LLMs and more efficacious use of them. The three simple suggestions here — don't prematurely dismiss errors as hallucinations, do use LLMs to surface the "unknown unknowns" , and do pay for the better models — are all pleas to engage more fully with this tech, and develop better (and more up-to-date) understandings of what they do well and what they do poorly, going beyond whether they fail or succeed to how they fail and how they succeed. This is also what we need to do in education. If we can start from there I'm confident our effort and engagement will be well-rewarded.

We're not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough. It's past time to start. - Mike Caulfield mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/its-time-to-… #AI #FactChecking

Our assumption about the claim forms our idea of the type of evidence we are looking for, the retrieval of which often sinks us further into our assumptions...(1)

-1/10 GRUSOMT KJEDELIG, måtte pine meg gjennom denne. Frarådes på det sterkeste.

Verdens tristeste glava-mann

Legg meg til som venn? Jeg heter brusboks der 😸

Det mest spennende som har skjedd til nå er at verdens dårligste julesangere har blitt snøddned av glava-lignende snøkladder.

Har også blitt lovet en llama-farm. Men vi har bare fått sett den på avstand i et par sekunder.

Julefilm #118

Ei dame som ELSKER jul drar til en hytte. Der støter hun på en ung Knausgård-type som hater jul. De har begge booket hytta og må nå tilbringe tid sammen.

Klassisk julefilm-historie her altså!

A teal square graphic framed by a thick rounded white border. Centered at the top is the white Apple logo above the words "App Store Awards" in white text, with "2025 Finalist" written underneath. Below that sits an app icon resembling a bookshelf: a rounded grey square containing three vertical black book spines, with the rightmost book leaning slightly, and a black horizontal line beneath them to represent a shelf.

We’ve been nominated as a finalist in the 2025 Apple App Store Awards! 🎉

We’re being recognised in the Cultural Impact category for our work in building an inclusive book community.

The winners will be announced in the coming weeks.

🔥🔥🔥

How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.

"Supai, the only village on the [Havasupai reservation], is one of the most remote communities in the 🇺🇸... The mule train, which makes the 16-mile, 6hr loop up + down the canyon 5days/wk, is perhaps the most extreme manifestation of the USPS mandate to 'render postal services to all communities.'"

"[Infrastructure] “Becomes visible upon breakdown. The normally invisible quality of working infrastructure becomes visible when it breaks: the server is down, the bridge washes out, there is a power blackout.”

— Susan Leigh Star

Day 4: Going Behind the Scenes www.ruthmalan.com/Advent/2025/...

"A system is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something"
— Donella Meadows

#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 5: Characterizing Systems

www.ruthmalan.com/Advent/2025/...

Dette er hvorfor er det alltid er viktig å stå opp for ofre, det tjener hele arbeidsmiljøet!
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

www.forskning.no/arbeid-arbei...

jeg er rett nok ikke overklasse, men jeg bruker stadig franske gloser og fraser når jeg prater til kattene våre

Nasjonalbiblioteket får ansvar for ny global KI-organisasjon for bibliotek, arkiv og museer

Hurra! Så glad for dette! #digitalhumaniora
AI4LAM har vært en viktig del av det europeiske DH-miljøet i noen år og i dag på MishMash sitt strategimøte foreslo jeg nettopp et samarbeid med disse når vi nå skal begynne å jobbe i digital cultural heritage-arbeidspakken 🥰

Dette er det som skjer i praksis; fagmiljøer forsvinner og dør ut og blir til gamle vennegjenger som sitter og super kaffe sammen og har ikke oppdatert seg på feltet på over et tiår fordi det ikke lenger er like sterkt insentiv til å gjøre det.

En av sju stipendiatstillinger er borte på tre år Nyheter | Kutt i akademia En av sju stipendiatstillinger er borte på tre år Stipendiater rammes hardt når universiteter og høgskoler sliter med stram økonomi. – Det er der det er enklest å kutte, sier...

Som en som en gang i tiden fikk nei på hvert eneste forskningsseminar jeg foreslo (sikker også pga at vi var få) kan jeg skrive under på hvor vanskelig doktorgradsarbeidet blir av at man kutter det ut pga færre stipendiater.

2. Is people saying semantic/NLP is distinct from "neural search". Neural search just means using some sort of neural net based way to do retrieval, a term used in the late2010s to 2020. These days almost are semantic/embedding search is based on transformer (a type of neural net) embedding so ..(4)

#bibliosky

In other words librarians have a bad habit of calling search "semantic" or non-lexical when they see not all the query terms appear in retrieved documents. That's non boolean not necessarily non lexical. Google up to say 2015s was mostly lexical (not boolean) (4)

Her er dokumentet som kunne ha felt Støre-regjeringen Steile fronter om en oljekommisjon holdt på å få MDG til å felle statsministeren. Her kan du lese nøyaktig hvor stridens kjerne sto.

Interessant innblikk i hva Miljøpartiet kjempet om i innspurten av statsbudsjettforhandlingene. Ikke uvesentlige passasjer om oljeomstillingskommisjonen.

Og igjen: utrolig at ikke vedtatte klimamål og helt påregnelig fall i olje- og gassproduksjonen lå inne før MDG krevde det.

Velkommen til diktkalender ☺️ noen verselinjer hver dag fram til julaften. 1. desember.

Hæ?

We have a little "AI sucks"-competition at work, just to see who can create the most useless AI-image. So far the "winner" is this one, described as "archaeological survey trenching in Norway". #Archaeology