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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · 12d

When I think about the type of people who funded this project, it's clear that they made ChatGPT in their own image - bold, over confident mouthpieces.

Truly, what is so bad about saying IDK?

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · 12d

So hallucinations are a thing because ChatGPT was trained to provide confident wrong answers over saying IDK.

Tell me there are few women working on this project without telling me there are few women working on this project.
openai.com/index/why-la...

Why language models hallucinate

OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety.

openai.com

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · 14d

Im a librarian, trying to explain to academic & medical professionals how the People Pleasing Pattern making machines really work, and all they want to talk about is how to make a good prompt. 🫩

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · 14d

my friend, have you learned about **the art of the prompt**?

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 14d

Commercial AI is explicitly designed to be easy enough for a platypus to use. WHAT IS THERE TO LEARN?

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · 16d

Acceptable distraction.

Tiny long-haired black kitten, sitting on a desk under the dual monitors looking at you with wee brown eyes.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · 21d

It's long, but kept my attention the whole time. 2 hours later and now I'm half way through the Hoover Damn, too.

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · 23d

Watching my cat watch a squirrel, I could sit here all day watching these two.

Tortoiseshell cat looking through the window at a squirrel in the bush. Squirrel is eating a nut, cat is watching intently.

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Sep 12

Do any other librarians out there find comfort in reading Marshall Breeding's Library Technology Guides. May the interface never, ever change.

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

🧵I couldn't quite make myself look at the new MAHA report, so I settled for today's opinion piece in the Washington Post: wapo.st/4mf4Ma7

As a #medlibs and #SystematicReview / #EvidenceSynthesis person, I of course had a look at the links/citations they include. Let's go over them, shall we?

Opinion | Linda McMahon and RFK Jr.: Children need natural sources of mental health

Overzealous use of therapy can cause the crises it claims to cure.

wapo.st

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Props to these academics who recognized the utility of predatory publishers! A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to meet superfluous productivity requirements.

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 26

I work in a hospital environment and we can't use AI technologies until they are vetted w/ cybersecurity. This isn't the product we licensed. 😡

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 26

The 80 workers laid off at OCLC, the elimination of Violet Fox’s position at Northwestern, and thousands of other displaced catalogers represent more than statistical casualties—they embody decades of accumulated expertise in organizing human knowledge that, once lost, cannot be easily recovered. When AI systems can silently block searches for “Gaza War” or “Tulsa race riot” while achieving only 26% accuracy on subject classification, we witness the replacement of human intellectual judgment with corporate algorithmic control that serves surveillance capitalism rather than scholarly inquiry.

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 26

My goodness, this article is bleak as hell.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen

In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 25

Censor - lol.

Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 25

Did the publishers and reviewers of the content within these databases miss something? Why are we letting AI tools sensor academic articles?

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 25

Primo & Summon support for Research Assistant said that they are working to fix the content filtering from Azure, but they don't seem to be getting rid of it.

Which begs the question, what kind of content in this academic database needs to be filtered?

Kimberly @greypele.bsky.social · Aug 22

So, Research Assistant (AI feature, Primo) is censoring the following topics: Genocide in Palestine
Gaza war
Rwandan genocide
Armenian genocide
Genocides across the world
History of genocides
lynching
lynching in the united states
lynchings in the united states
january 6
covid
covid data
COVID-19”

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Sure enough, the censorship is explained here.

Why do **academic databases** that already utilize **peer review** need this extra filtering? Who is Alma trying to help?

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 22

#Medlibs doing searches for IPV, ACE, drug abuse, STDs, ObGyn topics...the kinds of things you search for all the time, probably should think twice about using AI tools.

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Heres a post i made a while back about contemt filters. The content filters in your AI product may filter out search results for "high risk" content.

IMO, this kind of filtering has no place in academics or research.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 19

All this and the loss of JoAnns makes it rough for crafters. JoAnns was affordable, close by, and wasn't owned by a person who sued to take birth control away from it's employees.

MadStash @madstash.bsky.social · Aug 18

I am so sad that the revival of knitting, crochet and all the other needlecrafts is really going to suffer because of Shitler's desire to pulverize our economy. The removal of the $800 import limit is also going to negatively affect every LYS in the country, and that's already a tough business :( 🧶

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 11

I think about this Christmas special all the time but it still feels like a fever dream.

window sill lineup of California Raisin character thingies and the Simpsons. 1 inch plastic models of both sets of characters.

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 9

Is this on Roblox?

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 8

You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 5

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Appendix on an AI policy is actually quite bad. Having an AI deliver a summary before reading has major implications in terms of the experience of student learning. What we want students to do and how they do it is the question. The experience of reading is not the same as reading a summary.

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is my parenting approach in a nutshell.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Jul 31

Might they make mistakes? Yeah.

And the way you handle that is to let them make mistakes in a controlled fashion, to not gloat about their mistakes, and to let them learn.

You want people to do their falling when there’s a trampoline underneath to catch them.

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