Liz Suelzer

Is Pete Rose alive?
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little spoon with a red-orange, sticky, sweet concoction.

What did we get from trick or treating? Its sweet and spicy and the spoon was wrapped in plastic wrap.

When I think about the type of people who funded this project, it's clear that they made ChatGPT in their own image - bold, over confident mouthpieces.

Truly, what is so bad about saying IDK?

Why language models hallucinate OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety.

So hallucinations are a thing because ChatGPT was trained to provide confident wrong answers over saying IDK.

Tell me there are few women working on this project without telling me there are few women working on this project.
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Im a librarian, trying to explain to academic & medical professionals how the People Pleasing Pattern making machines really work, and all they want to talk about is how to make a good prompt. 🫩

my friend, have you learned about **the art of the prompt**?

Tiny long-haired black kitten, sitting on a desk under the dual monitors looking at you with wee brown eyes.

Acceptable distraction.

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

It's long, but kept my attention the whole time. 2 hours later and now I'm half way through the Hoover Damn, too.

Tortoiseshell cat looking through the window at a squirrel in the bush. Squirrel is eating a nut, cat is watching intently.

Watching my cat watch a squirrel, I could sit here all day watching these two.

Do any other librarians out there find comfort in reading Marshall Breeding's Library Technology Guides. May the interface never, ever change.

Opinion | Linda McMahon and RFK Jr.: Children need natural sources of mental health Overzealous use of therapy can cause the crises it claims to cure.

🧵I couldn't quite make myself look at the new MAHA report, so I settled for today's opinion piece in the Washington Post: wapo.st/4mf4Ma7

As a #medlibs and #SystematicReview / #EvidenceSynthesis person, I of course had a look at the links/citations they include. Let's go over them, shall we?

Props to these academics who recognized the utility of predatory publishers! A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to meet superfluous productivity requirements.

I work in a hospital environment and we can't use AI technologies until they are vetted w/ cybersecurity. This isn't the product we licensed. 😡

The 80 workers laid off at OCLC, the elimination of Violet Fox’s position at Northwestern, and thousands of other displaced catalogers represent more than statistical casualties—they embody decades of accumulated expertise in organizing human knowledge that, once lost, cannot be easily recovered. When AI systems can silently block searches for “Gaza War” or “Tulsa race riot” while achieving only 26% accuracy on subject classification, we witness the replacement of human intellectual judgment with corporate algorithmic control that serves surveillance capitalism rather than scholarly inquiry.

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...

My goodness, this article is bleak as hell.
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Censor - lol.

Did the publishers and reviewers of the content within these databases miss something? Why are we letting AI tools sensor academic articles?

Primo & Summon support for Research Assistant said that they are working to fix the content filtering from Azure, but they don't seem to be getting rid of it.

Which begs the question, what kind of content in this academic database needs to be filtered?

Sure enough, the censorship is explained here.

Why do **academic databases** that already utilize **peer review** need this extra filtering? Who is Alma trying to help?

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#Medlibs doing searches for IPV, ACE, drug abuse, STDs, ObGyn topics...the kinds of things you search for all the time, probably should think twice about using AI tools.

Heres a post i made a while back about contemt filters. The content filters in your AI product may filter out search results for "high risk" content.

IMO, this kind of filtering has no place in academics or research.

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All this and the loss of JoAnns makes it rough for crafters. JoAnns was affordable, close by, and wasn't owned by a person who sued to take birth control away from it's employees.

I think about this Christmas special all the time but it still feels like a fever dream.

Is this on Roblox?

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

This is my parenting approach in a nutshell.

Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.

Opened book on my lap, dog is also on my lap.

Sunday morning reading w/ my dog.

Jesus Wept, fantastic book.

The things they don't teach you in CCD.

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We were just talking about this at work and we share the same concern about MeSH. 😞