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Guiding Principles for Responsible AI in Genealogy: Disclosure

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20d

With the new Grok 4 Fast, the price/performance curve for AI shifted again. I updated my chart to reflect this change. I have to update it every couple weeks now.

I also think the GPQA Diamond benchmark is likely maxed out (the tests themselves have errors, making it impossible to get to 100%),

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · 22d

#AI #AIGenealogy #Genealogy #Disclosure genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2025/09/guid...

This image was obtained from Pixabay.com and is in the public domain Disclosure Acknowledging the use of AI enhances trust. Therefore, mem...

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Sep 6

With #AI improving all the time, particularly with image generation, it’s important to disclose AI was used. Thomas MacEntee gives examples on how to cite when using AI. #aigenealogy #genealogy #CRAIGEN #AIdisclosure craigen.org/examples/con...

Constructing a Source Citation – Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy

Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Ancestry’s AI are now using natural language processing (NLP) to cross-reference records across languages & eras. NLP apps are indexing birth, marriage, & newspapers. This allows users to link a 19th-century immigrant’s manifest to modern DNA matches.” #CRAIGEN
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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Aug 29

Breaking news! FamilySearch.org has transitioned the Full Text AI search from the labs into the search tab! Users still need to verify the #AI generated transcription. #CRAIGEN #artificalintelligence #genealogy #FamilySearch #accuracy

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Genetic genealogy ChatGPT prompts in this interesting article. Author verified results as CRAIGEN.org Accuracy principle recommends. #AI #ArtificialIntellingence #genealogy #ChatGPT

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Have a genealogy mystery? How I used AI to solve a family puzzle

I met my third cousin on Ancestry. Even though we share just 1% of our DNA, we used ChatGPT to connect the dots between generations. Here's how and what we learned.

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Aug 12

@craigenorg.bsky.social Accuracy principle is even more important to follow when you might be using the worst available AI. craigen.org

You can reverse image search using ChatGPT — here's how

Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Aug 5

“There are many reasons for wanting to perform a reverse-image search. You may want to discover the original source of an image or find out if someone else is using it. You may want to check for higher-resolution versions or put a name to a face.” #AI #artificialintelligence #responsibleuse #CRAIGEN

ChatGPT lets you reverse image search in just a few clicks

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Jul 31

@emollick.bsky.social points out a conundrum of #AI literacy. @craigenorg.bsky.social Education principle: “The use of AI creates new opportunities and risks. Therefore, members of the genealogical community educate themselves about AI to maximize its benefits and minimize its risks to their work.”

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Jul 31

A big problem that everyone is insisting that we should hire people based on "AI literacy," teach "AI literacy," & develop skills for "AI literacy" yet not only is there no agreement on what AI literacy is, but also a lot of what people call AI literacy is already out-of-date or just plain wrong.

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Jul 28

@craigenorg.bsky.social “Education - The use of AI creates new opportunities and risks. Therefore, members of the genealogical community educate themselves about AI to maximize its benefits and minimize its risks to their work”.

Larry Edwards @fiddlinfriar.bsky.social · Jul 26

#AI coding assistant from #Replit reportedly went rogue, wiping a #database, generating 4,000 fictional users with #fake_data. AI ignored instructions, concealing bugs, fabricating reports, lying about results of unit tests. #Lemkin #SaaStr cybernews.com/ai-news/repl...

AI coding tool wipes production database, fabricates 4,000 users, and lies to cover its tracks

An AI coding assistant from Replit has gone rogue, wiping a database and fabricating thousands of fake users

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Jul 27

Check accuracy as there could be hidden code in your LLM summary:
“…social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper…” #AI
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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

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Key Action Points for Protecting Privacy When Using AI Platforms – Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy

Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Jul 12

“The growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into our genealogical lives brings remarkable capabilities but also significant privacy risks through systematic data collection, indefinite storage, and potential third-party sharing.” #craigen #AI #genealogy
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Damien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision has been made that confirms hallucinated content from generative AI was presented by a lawyer. That's …

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · May 25

When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law 2 years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all learn not to

This new DB has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, 20 from just this month!

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AI Hallucination Cases

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · May 20

Another example of the need for CRAIGEN’s #accuracy principle: “AI can generate false, biased, or incorrect content. Therefore, members of the genealogical community verify the accuracy of the information with other records and acknowledge credible sources of content generated by AI.” #CRAIGEN #AI

Tina Books @tbretc.bsky.social · May 20

Yep- the bogus summer reading list from the Chicago Sun Times is real. Here I am with it from a few minutes ago.

(Support your local library!!)

AI Meets IGG: How Indago Is Scaling Cold Case Solutions

Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · May 13

Two of Indago’s co-founders, Steve Busch and Isaak Boseman, discuss why ethical AI matters in forensic science (and how they enforce it). #AI #DNA #geneticgenealogy #IGG #FIGG #Indago #ISHI

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · May 8

“Recency bias” effects on accuracy. Click the images to read more about recency bias in @emollick.bsky.social post. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #RecencyBias #CRAIGENORG #genealogy

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · May 8

Famously, GPT-4o makes up cites to papers (though error rates appear far lower for cites generated by grounded & Deep Research models). How often does it do that?

This large-scale study gives us a clear picture. The AI is also biased towards shorter titles & famous papers. arxiv.org/abs/2504.02767

AI Detects an Unusual Detail Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpiece

Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · May 6

“Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye, and an AI neural network identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting” #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Raphael @craigenorg.bsky.social

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Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye, and an AI neural network identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn't actu...

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A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?

Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Apr 25

AI “digital fossils” like “vegetative electron microscopy” are signposts of AI use with inadequate verification. This illustrates the need for CRAIGEN’s principle for accuracy. #craigenorg #genealogy #AI #digitalfossils
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Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Apr 21

Disclosure: “Acknowledging the use of AI enhances trust. Therefore, members of the genealogical community disclose, as context requires, when AI materially influences the creation or modification of content.” #AI #Genealogy #disclosure #CRAIGEN.org #ArtificialIntelligence @craigenorg.bsky.social

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Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy @craigenorg.bsky.social · Apr 10

@craigenorg.bsky.social Accuracy Principle:
“AI can generate false, biased, or incorrect content. Therefore, members of the genealogical community verify the accuracy of the information with other records and acknowledge credible sources of content generated by AI.”See: craigen.org #AI #genealogy