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"Click-bait has never been easier to generate," writes Mita Williams, and as a result, our trust in things like search results has never been lower. "I wonder," she writes, "Who can I ask who would know the answer to this question?" And as a librarian, "I want to be seen as a person that people can turn to for Authentic Human Results." In a sense, that's what I provide in OLDaily as well. I use AI tools to assist me, but I personally select and evaluate each item in the newsletter. I think this type of service might last for some time. We might eventually trust AI results, but it will be a while before we're ready to accept acerbic comments about our work from a machine. Via Bonnie Stewart. Related: AI will start fact-checking. We may not like the results. "Their work risks being a high-tech Maginot Line: A defense ... that can't anticipate - or respond to - the next iteration of information warfare."

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