Scott LeslieThis article on "Libraries as AI Sandboxes" (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2026/03/13/how-libraries-shape-ai-literacy-campus) offers up Boodlebox as one starting point, a service that gives access to multiple LLMs in a single interface, as a place for libraries and edus to start https://box.boodle.ai/ Anyone have experiences with it
john fink ok!! :goat:@sleslie ....if it uses cloud models how the fuck are they "prioritizing privacy and ensuring no user data is used to train the large language model"????
@sleslie ok, looking at https://boodlebox.ai/overview/ I still have zero idea of what this does or the actual value proposition of it, so I'm gonna be cynical and suggest that it's just basically some version of any number of free harnesses that is sold at a huge markup to extremely gullible academics who want to be seen as being on the cutting edge of something or other.
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@sleslie if there's one thing I've learned from over 30 years in libraries, it's that libraries just love buying vendor products and then trying to make as much hay as possible about how Innovative they are.