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Amb el fantàstic equip de @radiowebmacba.bsky.social vam estar xerrant hores i hores, 2 dies separats en el temps... Em van donar de menjar i em van fer deixar pensar i perdre'm en bones mans.

by the way to what extent using smart search is to make a smart move. Maybe by losing the daily training on faceted boolean search in favor of natural language queries everyone loses a significant skill which results in abilities as of analysis, synthesis and translation...

Thank you so much for the answer and that clarification. Your bluit was recent and I was somehow merely pointing out yourself as the librarian whose observations (not always concerns) regarding the topic, AI applied to information retrieval, are worth following for further knowledge.

I'm wondering⬇️

Són molt interessants les proves que està fent l' @aarontay.bsky.social, i les consideracions que n'ofereix: bsky.app/profile/noet...

But Glenn! It's $1.5 BILLION dollars in "licensing."

You ARE aware that Anthropic's current valuation is $183 BILLION dollars, right?

This isn't even a rounding error. It's legalizing IP theft. It's cheaper than licensing the works. It's a bargain for Anthropic.

Llegiu tota la notícia, que recull el que alguns afectats han començat a descobrir. bsky.app/profile/andr...

Bé, no tothom cobrarà perquè s'està veient que alguns editors van "oblidar" registrar el copyright (en resposta sota aquesta cita).
3000€ o $ és misèria per un ús universal d'una obra en un xatbot, a ull de taxador. Equival a uns 1500 llibres venuts, posem. I de quants usuaris de Claude parlem?

i love this. Cursor is anthropic's biggest compute customer, and sends 100% of their revenue to Anthropic so that Anthropic can buy ads to sell Claude Code, a competitor to Cursor, which they are going to make better by buying data off of Cursor created by Cursor using Anthropic's models

Del blog estupendíssim de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, una entrada divulgativa fabulosa, de la Carolina Taboada, de Digitalització, sobre com es crea una col·lecció a la Memòria Digital de Catalunya, tot aprofitant l'ocasió de la incorporació del Fons Enric Granados.
www.bnc.cat/El-Blog-de-l...

How does #WaybackMachine prevent intervention or corruption of archived information ?… seriously, the Trump Admin is wiping history out of the Smithsonian

Gradient blue background with the limb of the Earth dominating the left side, and features the Internet Archive logo modified so that two of its four pillars make the characters 1 T, for one trillion web pages. Testimonial text reads: “The Wayback Machine is so important because the internet is temporary. Links break, sites close, content lost. Old paper records are safe in libraries and will last for generations, but our online content is at risk. The Wayback Machine preserving content is so important to make sure we don't lose our history, and can continue to discover and tell stories about where we've come from.” Signed Chris W., Blackburn, United Kingdom.

Gradient blue background with the limb of the Earth peeking into the bottom of the image, and features the Internet Archive logo modified so that two of its four pillars make the characters 1 T, for one trillion web pages. Testimonial text reads: “Years ago when I first discovered that websites can disappear but are preserved on the Wayback Machine, it gave me a sense of security in digital content. In such uncertain times, being able to access information and content from my past memories makes me feel a sense of safety that is hard to describe, but means so much." Signed Amy J., San Luis Obispo, USA.

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The #WaybackMachine is more than nostalgia—it proves the web has a history. Sites vanish & links break, but memories & knowledge endure. That sense of safety & continuity is why preservation matters.

#Wayback1T

"But a system designed to sanitize chatbot conversations does not serve the purpose of academic search. It actively undermines it."

More info on this from Aaron Tay

aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

[Read] Cognitive ease at a cost: LLMs reduce mental effort but compromise depth in student scientific inquiry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - Fun read. Looking for more empirical studies comparing people using Search engine vs LLM.

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We’d love to know if people are using rescued data. We have download numbers but it would be helpful to know how people are using them! If you have use cases get in touch!

Have you submitted an idea for European Public Domain day? Deadline is Sept 31.

#STOPIAGENERATIVA

Las Autoras de Cómic seguimos luchando por nuestros derechos de autoría y propiedad intelectual.

Desde el Colectivo de Autoras de Cómic seguimos trabajando incansables en varias acciones, como la itinerancia de la exposición “Autoras de cómic en contra de la IA generativa”⏩

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:

Esto resumen bien la mentalidad de tanta gente. Lo que les molesta de pagar impuestos no es pagar; es que sean impuestos. Prefieren pagar MÁS, pero que no sean impuestos.

Great that Ireland already has this for print, ebooks and audio books

Beinecke Library

The beautiful rare book display at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale. We stopped by this week and had to share with you all.

bsky.app/profile/raul...

Where do you think the U.S. version will be?

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

It's become quite a widely used term, but I don't like 'hallucinate' used for LLMs. They don't perceive the information.

I would instead use 'confabulate', the plausible filling in of knowledge gaps.

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate.

Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

A shelving unit holding a small rough-hewn electric appliance. In comparison to the card catalogues behind it, it's a tiny device, no longer than a desktop radio of the era; documents produced by this 'electric telescope' could be reviewed on the desk itself.

Hypertext was a product of the 60s... because its spiritual and technical precursor, the Mundaneum institute's Universal Decimal Classification, was functionally destroyed by the Nazis razing Belgium in 1940.

How are we, in the year 2025, still dealing with library workers who want us to be meek, have no opinions, and act, essentially, as middleman robots that dispense whatever a patron asks for, whenever, with no guidance, no questions, no pushback?

To the person angry we weren't "neutral" in our AI Ethics panel:

We absolutely should be saying no to technology that poisons the environment. We absolutely should be making moral choices about who we give money to.

There is nothing neutral about librarianship. Never has been, never will be.

When unis say “we won’t fire you humanities professors, we’ll just take your majors away and merge your department with two others and rename it all,” what they’re doing is they’re making humanities expertise increasingly invisible and inaccessible…