@noracodes i think immediacy is also part of the problem here; people want a tentative answer in five seconds not a well-researched answer in five days
@noracodes there are two related things here:
(1) is that on-call librarians are generally overkill for this sort of job. LLMs are, by design, only effective at broadly-scoped inquiries into generally-available information. librarians can make reference materials for these sorts of queries which patrons can self-service with; you don't actually need an on-call human being to produce the same exact libguide ad-hoc every time. the problem is that, in the current state of the internet, these reference materials are not discoverable.
(2) is that many people do not want to use LLMs to learn, they want to use LLMs to avoid learning (e·g bash script generation so they don’t have to learn bash). librarians would not help in this case since being an expert at finding information doesn’t mean you can or should be doing other people’s homework for them.
i think (1) is solveable and (2) should not be solved. however, capitalism currently finds profit in (2) and not (1).
what do you think? that someone writing critical, compassionate fanfic can thrive here? that they will be taken seriously and able to make a difference? this system cares nothing for them and everything for the fanworks they hate
this is not hyperbole; if you care more about the preservation of a mythical fan identity, always figured as constantly under threat, than you do about actual human beings or, dare i say, the interrogation and advancement of the artform—into something more compassionate, more responsible, and more capable of enacting good in the world—then you have lost sight of your own humanity and certainly that of the people around you, and this ⁜is⁜ the founding and driving mythos of the organization of which i speak
it is mildly distressing however that fans see people approaching their art with a mentality that all criticism and interrogation is suspect, that analysing the human costs and effects of a work is misguided and wrong, and that every form of speech, no matter how vile, is equally valuable and worthy of preservation—that fans see these takes brought out again and again and yet expect something other than the same old fascism from the people who make them
i really can’t be bothered to care that an organization which was explicitly established to provide safe harbour for hate speech also thinks genocide is okay and running meetings is hard
apparently an organizational relic of a racist corner of late ’00s internet had a board meeting tonight and for that reason i am still not asleep
@coriander trying to work out the meaning of a controversial super bowl call but all you have is the rulebook from a few years later with the changes made after it happened
Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.