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  • I will dropkick you if you refer to an LLM as a Librarian

    I am on Team LLMs are Cultural Artifacts. I am not on Team “AI Rights”.

    Mita Williams

    January 18, 2024
    notes
    llm
  • The flood of machine-generated news and misinformation demands witness

    How can we fact-check potentially machine-generated misinformation when our investment in journalism is being decimated?

    Mita Williams

    January 5, 2024
    notes
    llm
  • When the zone is being flooded, libraries need to make the high ground

    Libraries can and should lend our authority to help others establish claims based on credible sources of information on the internet.

    Mita Williams

    January 1, 2024
    notes
    llm
  • Words of 2023

    Inspired by Matt Webb, I have been collecting words and phrases that are interesting to me since March of 2021.

    Mita Williams

    December 21, 2023
    collection
  • Shall We Play A Game? How games can help us think about machine learning

    What are generative AI LLM gpt-chat-bot machine learning systems… for? And how can game theory help us answer that question?

    Mita Williams

    December 12, 2023
    notes
    llm
  • Plagiarism and Us

    I think you should watch Harris Brewis’ video essay, Plagiarism and You(Tube).

    Mita Williams

    December 6, 2023
    citations, notes
  • I am fed up with hiding myself — an actual human being — behind the conventional anonymity of a large language model

    I think you should read the transcript of Barbara Fister’s talk, “information literacy, writing instruction, and the problem of stochastic parrots”. And then I want to you to come out of hiding.

    Mita Williams

    November 30, 2023
    citations, notes
    llm
  • Citations Needed – Chatting about Chat-GPT

    Yesterday I spoke on a panel which was one part of a series of Windsor Law LTEC Lab forum discussions about Chat-GPT & Generative AI. This post is a means to share my cited works to prove that I didn’t make it all up (like Australia) like an army of drunk interns named Steve would.

    Mita Williams

    November 23, 2023
    notes
    llm
  • Understanding AI as Dark Magic : A Collection

    §1 Never give an AI your true name §2 Now is the time for grimoires §3 “I refuse to write the name of mythical foes” §4 Dæmon (His Dark Materials) §5 Our Gothic Future §6 The more monstrous §7 An AI Haunted World §8 Old wards and new against fake humans §9 Glimpsing the shoggoth…

    Mita Williams

    November 17, 2023
    collection
    llm
  • Weeknote 41 2023

    §1 The librarian who devoured the library §2 Alexa reads too many Substack newsletters §3 How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy §4 We need to understand generative AI as platforms for coordinating labour. §5 AI and The Unauthorized Practice of Law

    Mita Williams

    October 13, 2023
    weeknotes
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