AI News Roundup: New Data From COAR: “Repositories are Being Profoundly Impacted by AI Bots and Other Crawlers”; “Springer Nature Donates its Unique AI Tool That Identifies Problematic Text to Publishing Community”; & More Headlines
Bots/Crawling
- As AI Lawsuits Mount, Publishers Still Struggle to Block the Bots (via Digiday)
Note: An archived version of this article available here.
LLMs
- Generalization Bias in Large Language Model Summarization of Scientific Research (via Royal Society Open)
- This Data Set Helps Researchers Spot Harmful Stereotypes in LLMs (via Technology Review)
Repositories
Springer Nature
- Release: Springer Nature Donates its Unique AI Tool That Identifies Problematic Text to Publishing Community
Note: Donation Made to STM - Media Coverage: Springer Nature Donates ‘Geppetto’ AI Tool to Industry to Nix ‘Growth in Fraudulent Submissions (via The Bookseller)
Wikimedia Foundation
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.


