This is really rather good.
It stops short of a rigorous examination of the ethics of using commercial AI at all, and that omission deserves to be rectified, but otherwise, this is really rather good.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
This is really rather good.
It stops short of a rigorous examination of the ethics of using commercial AI at all, and that omission deserves to be rectified, but otherwise, this is really rather good.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
Vietnam is doing it. Pray what is everyone else's excuse?
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
This piece by @TheyOfHIShirts@glammr.us will resonate with Coordinators, dumpster-job holders, innovation shields, and folk in similar positions.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
New post on Gavia Libraria, in #EtCetera:
W(h)ither “… and AI”?
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New post on Gavia Libraria, in #ScholarlyCommunication:
Won’t get hoaxed again
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arXiv has also said "if we catch AI guano in your work, it's out and you're out."
Good.
https://bsky.app/profile/aniloza.bsky.social/post/3mltoq2cnhc2u
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Well, well, well.
This is well done of the Association for Computational Linguistics. May it be swiftly adapted and adopted in many more venues.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
RE: @petersuber@fediscience.org
Every single paper with a fake citation should be redacted and the authors barred from the publication.
Authors with more than one article in the set should be fired.
Zero tolerance. It is the only way to be sure.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
Classic hybrid job. Completely senseless combination of distinct types of work.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
This is probably not news, but nonetheless: a suspiciously low salary for the demanded knowledge, skills, and experience is a strong sign that the employer does not value the work.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
Loonish predictions borne out:
* "More trumpeted triumphalist trials of generative AI for useful ends that fizzle on closer examination." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/influential-study-touting-chatgpt-in-education-retracted-over-red-flags/
* "At least one major social-media platform will come out swinging against age verification." Not quite coming out swinging, but still an indicator: https://qz.com/roblox-full-year-forecast-cut-age-verification-user-growth-050126
And it is only May. The Loon has had worse prediction years.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
The Loon is not against this idea; indeed she suggested something like it once (https://gavialib.com/2025/02/bringing-back-govdocs-librarianship/).
She notes, however, the same distressing "about librarianship without librarianship" tendency she has previously called out in the open-access movement.
Kindly do better. It would have been both politic and strategic to get a research library or two onboard before launching this. Or ASERL, and if the launchers don't know why, they didn't do their homework.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
RE: https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/digital-dark-times-salaries-in-digital-preservation/
This job is indeed the worst. Coordinator Syndromed dumpster job.
The Loon would add to @beet_keeper@digipres.club's excellent takedown that no one else in the Serpentine will understand, and few if any value, what the person in this job does. That will make the policy parts of this job flatly impossible, everything else merely absurdly difficult.
The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
Apropos of the Loon's recent post on sanctions for authors whose articles include AI slop citations, this by Dr. Dorothea Baur: https://dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and-media/hallucinated-references-five-excuses-for-academic-misconduct/