The outcome of the lawsuit, hinging as it does on defining the legal ownership of digital books, may well determine the right of libraries to own and lend from their own collections, freely and without interference-whether those books are on paper, or digital. ![]() ( The Retreat of Learning, you might call it.) 11 And until it is discovered and challenged, some incalculable amount of false information at Google will likely remain. Unless the publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive fails, that free, searchable online book will disappear-along with many millions of other valuable resources currently held at the Open Library. 9 Current IssueĪgain, it took me less than two minutes to access the original, correct, searchable text of The Advancement of Learning at the Internet Archive’s Open Library-for now, that is. Just think how rapidly a ChatGPT user could flood the internet with fake news stories that appear to have been written by humans.” So… this is already happening. Writing in The Guardian, journalism scholar Emily Bell expressed alarm at the “ fake news frenzy” they’ve unleashed: “ have absolutely no commitment to the truth. 8Ĭriticism of AI chatbots from writers, teachers, and academics has been snowballing since the introduction of ChatGPT. ![]() The breakneck deployment of half-baked AI, and its unthinking adoption by a load of credulous writers, means that Google-where, admittedly, I’ve found the quality of search results to be steadily deteriorating for years-is no longer a reliable starting point for research. It was a bit weird to realize, right then, that I am going to have to stop using Google for work, but it’s true. When I searched Google on the phrase, “17th century criticism of the printing press,” the results linked to Cowen’s fake-filled blog post! These published falsehoods have already polluted Google.
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