ITEM
The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home? Item Info
- Title:
- The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home?
- Creator:
- Kendrick, C.
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-26
- Description:
- A skeptical look at the performance of the Jan. 2023 ChatGPT LLM interactions with research questions that typical for librarians. The writer, who is a librarian, gives us a good--if somewhat dated--view of how generative AI can end up producing many flawed citations that are especially misleading because they're well formed. Since this article was published the problem of AI hallucinations in aiding research, as a human librarian would, has yet to be solved.
- Subjects:
- generative-AI hallucination blog
- Resource URL:
- https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/01/26/guest-post-the-efficacy-of-chatgpt-is-it-time-for-the-librarians-to-go-home/
- Annotation:
- The issue of generative AI generating fake, or flawed, citations has not been adequately addressed. Teaching and promoting citation best practices is an essential part of the job of academic librarians. Rather than helping librarians, this issue shows how AI can actually make one's job harder and less efficient. Now low effort citation creation is harder to spot and address.
- Submitter:
- Olawn, Joshua
- Added:
- October 2024
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home?", AI.LD,
- Reference Link:
- https://elibtronic.github.io/AIL_Database/items/ail_053.html