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AI CDC’s Generative AI Pilots Include School Closure Tracking, Website Updates (Via FedScoop) Even OpenAI says its new voice cloning tool has major potential for misuse (via NPR) This Tool Makes AI Models Hallucinate Cats to Fight Copyright Infringement (via NBC News) Alabama Former Prattville Library Director Sues Governing Board Over Termination (via Alabama Reflector) […]
AI Anthropic Researchers Wear Down AI Ethics With Repeated Questions (TechCrunch) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Financial Services (via CRS) ChatGPT Jailbreak Prompts Proliferate on Hacker Forums (via SC Magazine) Hackers Force AI Chatbots to Break Their Own Rules (via Axios) Is Generative AI the Answer for the Failures of Content Moderation? (via Just […]
Ebooks & Audiobooks: OCLC Announces the Acquisition of cloudLibrary
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Acquisition Announcement: OCLC has acquired cloudLibrary, a platform that offers access to a wide variety of digital content through libraries. The acquisition will help OCLC support public libraries in their efforts to successfully manage accelerated shifts to digital collections. Nearly 500 libraries in 20 countries rely on cloudLibrary to […]
From a BookNet Canada: The top-selling English language print book in Canada last year was Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, according to new research released by BookNet Canada. Sales of this title drove a 16% increase in the Biography & Autobiography category when compared with 2022. For the first time this year, […]
From University of Kentucky Libraries: University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center is home to a remarkable collection that may drive Kentuckians to defend – or decapitate – a king. The French Revolution Publications Collection consists of nearly 5000 political bulletins, printed from the beginning of the long and bloody French Revolution through the ascendancy of Napoleon Bonaparte, […]
From Planetizen: Washington, D.C. recently launched a generative AI tool trained on 2,000 open data sets, reports Jonathan Andrews for Cities Today. The beta version of DC Compass, a chatbot similar to ChatGPT, is now accessible to city staff and residents to ask data-oriented civic questions and generate maps at a keystroke. The city worked with Esri, […]
From Boise State Public Radio: In 2021, the departments of Interior and Agriculture issued a joint order calling for agreements to co-steward federal lands with tribal governments, and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge. It called for these arrangements “where Federal lands or waters, including wildlife and its habitat, are located within or adjacent to a federally recognized Indian […]
From a SPARC Europe Announcement: A new SPARC Europe report focuses on the state of Open Education (OE) and Open Educational Resources (OER) across European higher education institutions in 2023. Supported by the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), this report draws on a survey conducted between November 2023 and January 2024. SPARC Europe follows […]
Report: Harvard Law School Digitization Project Publishes Nearly 7 Million Court Cases Online (Caselaw Access Project)
Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, School Libraries
|From The Harvard Crimson: The Caselaw Access Project published nearly seven million cases from the Harvard Law School’s collections online on March 8, concluding a nine-year process to digitize the HLS Library’s archive of court cases. The Caselaw Access Project, also known as CAP, aimed “to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to […]
Florida Morningstar Drops Investment Service at Library After Landing on Florida’s Anti-Israel List (via Orlando Sentinel/Tampa Bay Times) Georgia Law That Would Ban the American Library Association From Georgia Falls Short on Final Day of Session (via WABE) & Georgia Lawmakers Leave Library Bill on the Shelf (via AJC) ORCID ORCID and GitHub Sign Memorandum of […]