Fake News, ChatGPT & AI:
Wrangling Strategies
Chad Mairn
Innovation Lab�St. Petersburg College
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SCIgen - an Automatic CS Paper Generator (2005)
Library Research vs. Chatbot Answers?
��Changing the way we think about information and libraries
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Prompt engineering is the process of creating and refining prompts (i.e., instructions or questions written in natural language) to get specific responses from AI models. They provide guidance to the model and help shape its behavior and output.
Source and Duet AI
Tips for using prompt engineering responsibly:
Be clear about the purpose of your prompt. What are you trying to achieve with it?
Be aware of the potential biases of the LLM you are using.
Use prompt engineering in a way that respects the privacy and confidentiality of your patrons.
Be transparent about the use of prompt engineering in your library services.
Monitor the results of your prompt engineering experiments and make adjustments as needed.
Share your findings with other librarians so that they can learn from your experience.
"Infinite Craft"combine elements to craft new recipes using an AI language model called Llama 2
Private “Large” Language Model using EON-XR’s Train AI function
Conversation With a Chatbot in Augmented Reality
NotebookLM is a “private” large language model that allows you to read, take notes, ask questions, and organize your ideas with the help of a personalized AI assistant
GPTbot (OpenAI) is being used to scrape and collect online content for AI model training. GPT-5 will likely be trained on the data scraped by this bot.
Robots.txt, Kudurru etc. will block GPTBot and other AI scrapers.
Over 250 billion pages spanning 17 years. Free, open-source dataset used to train LLMs. Cited in over 10,000 research papers. 3–5 billion new pages added each month.
Artificial Intelligence
Overwhelming Consensus for Artificial Intelligence Regulation
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer organized a closed-door forum with tech executives, tech advocates, civil rights groups, and labor leaders to discuss passing bipartisan legislation that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its biggest risks.
Musk and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt raised existential risks posed by AI. Zuckerberg brought up the question of closed vs. “open source” AI models. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna expressed opposition to the licensing approach favored by other companies
“I don’t know why we would invite all the biggest monopolists in the world to come and give Congress tips on how to help them make more money and then close it to the public.” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri
Many lawmakers pointed to the failure to pass any legislation surrounding social media. Bills have stalled in the House and Senate that would better protect children, regulate activity around elections, and mandate stricter privacy standards
Proposed legislation by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., would require disclaimers for AI-generated election ads with deceptive imagery and sounds. Hawley and Blumenthal’s broader approach would create a government oversight authority with the power to audit certain AI systems for harms before granting a license (No Section 230 Immunity for AI Act).
It is time to fully integrate AI Literacy into existing information literacy frameworks so everyone can gain the necessary skills to understand and use AI technologies responsibly.
It is vital to update curriculum to include AI literacy across all disciplines so students can make informed decisions about when and how to use AI tools effectively, to critically assess their use, and to become ethical technology users.
“The codification of knowledge and the process of enhancing human learning will be the cornerstones of the next phase of human history. In the second industrial revolution, the wealth and power of nations will be based on non-material resources, by the ability to create and facilitate knowledge. Seen in this light, the librarian is a natural leader for the age of knowledge that is now unfolding.”
~ Ray Kurzweil
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