Library: Student Guide to Generative AI (ChatGPT): Conversations about the impact of AI & ChatGPT

The website, Ditch That Textbook, describes some great questions that we should all be asking as we incorporate artificial intelligence into our daily lives. How would you answer these questions?

Questions of humanity -- what sets us apart as humans? When should AI be used, and when shouldn't it be?
Questions of obsolescence -- what can I do that AI can't do? How can I do my best to be sure my work, my passions, my place in this world isn't replaced by artificial intelligence?
Questions of ethics -- how can AI use be fair, equitable, unbiased, good? What happens if it gets in the hands of bad actors? How can I make sure I'm using it in an ethical way?

Credit: Ditch That Textbook: ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education

Conversations about Generative AI

As many industries adopt artificial intelligence and people use it in their daily lives, what are the conversations taking place about how humans should use these tools?

General Concerns about Artificial Intelligence

Old Dominion Library: Algorithms & AI
This guide by Old Dominion Library reviews concerns about AI such as digital redlining, filter bubbles, and more.
Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books are Powering Generative AI
What are the legalities and ethics around the training content in generative AI data sets? Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.

Artificial Intelligence & Disinformation

NYTimes: Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots
Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives. (If the article is behind a paywall, log in with your Pace NY Times access. If you have not signed up, ask a librarian for help.)
Poynter: This newspaper doesn’t exist: How ChatGPT can launch fake news sites in minutes
The buzzy new AI tool can quickly create entire news organizations out of thin air. Should we be freaking out?

Impact & Evolution of Inaccuracies/Hallucinations

Scholars: AI isn’t “hallucinating” — it’s bullshitting
Scholars are starting to distinguish between the idea of "hallucinations" and "bullshit" and argue that ChatGPT and other generative AIs are designed to do the latter.
ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding
People began emailing The Guardian to ask their archivists for copies of articles. The problem was they didn't exist because ChatGPT made them up.
Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models
Lukas Berglund and others, led by Owain Evans, asked a simple, powerful, elegant question: can LLMs trained on A is B infer automatically that B is A? The shocking answer is, no.
Gizmodo: CNET Is Reviewing the Accuracy of All Its AI-Written Articles After Multiple Major Corrections
Big surprise: CNET's writing robot doesn't know what it's talking about.

Potential Future of AI

The Race to Build a ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine
A search bot you converse with could make finding answers easier—if it doesn’t tell fibs. Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and others are working on it.
An Interview with Legible’s new LibrarianAI
Discover your next read with LibrarianAI - the revolutionary new tool delivering personalized access to two million books.

Ethical Concerns

OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
In its quest to make ChatGPT less toxic, OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan laborers earning less than $2 per hour, a TIME investigation has found.
The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science?
Marching into the future with an obstructed view. AI is not revealing how their algorithms work and what sources are being analyzed.
Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
"Concern because we fear that the most popular and fashionable strain of A.I. — machine learning — will degrade our science and debase our ethics by incorporating into our technology a fundamentally flawed conception of language and knowledge."
Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there’s no foolproof way to catch it all yet.
Librarians’ Guide to Answering Students’ Ethical Questions about AI
AI raises many ethical questions for students – here's some answers.

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Student Guide to Generative AI (ChatGPT)