@paulwalk

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Technical consultant and developer, working with Web technologies to support open access to research.

Lives in Frome, UK.

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Personal websitehttps://www.paulwalk.net
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Football ClubPortsmouth
paulwalk18m ago
Lina2h ago

Boost plz!

Looking for critical scholarship on the use of "AI" by library/archive workers. University libraries in particular, but adjacent and tangentially-relevant-at-best stuff is welcome too. Any format is fine: books, papers, blogposts, whatever. If it's good, gimme all you've got!

Looks like we're gonna have a department-wide conversation about people using LLMs, and it's being framed as "we're all using it, but we're not talking about it, so let's make sure we're all on the same page about using it responsibly" ... I'll of course be pushing the "there's basically no way to use it responsibly" position, and I'd like to arm myself and others with some critical analyses of issues related to its use in library/archive spaces.

#llm #LLMs #ai #libraries #archives

Show threadpaulwalk1d ago

@Downes a shame :-(

It's taken decades so far. We had a very bad reversal about 3 years ago where Dartmoor (the only place we can legally wild-camp in England) was enclosed as a result of a lawsuit by the owner (who is inevitably a hedge-fund millionaire). However this got overturned on appeal 🎉

paulwalk1d ago

Another step closer to the Right To Roam in England :-)

https://www.paulwalk.net/2026/opening-up-the-land-registry/

Opening Up the Land Registry

Paul Walk's Website
Show threadpaulwalk2d ago
@trenner @cogdog this could become a battle cry 😁
Show threadpaulwalk2d ago
@trenner @cogdog 🤣
Show threadpaulwalk2d ago
@gklyne @hvdsomp @cogdog @coderanger that's interesting. I don't share the implicit assumption that this is supposed to scale, or be a general solution. I see it as "local" & personal
Show threadpaulwalk2d ago

@gklyne @cogdog @hvdsomp I don't think I'd like to see the negative equivalent - that would turn into social media all over again!

I agree with the likelihood of the impact declining sharply at each remove in the web of trust - but that feels like a feature to me. It keeps it "local".

paulwalk2d ago
Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊2d ago
A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?
Show threadpaulwalk2d ago

@mike @hvdsomp @cogdog Yes - agreed that they will try to do this. And, moreover, people will *claim* their website is written by their (human) self, when they actually use some LLM to "draft" it.

But I think this experiment is about establishing "trust" relationships between websites. Maybe closer in spirit to the "blog roll" idea - semi-automated.

Again - I'm not at all sure this is viable - but I've become very interested in how we can identify human-generated content in The Age of Slop.

Show threadpaulwalk2d ago

@hvdsomp @cogdog It's the chain of trust created by the "vouches" idea I think. So, you start with someone that you actually know and trust and work from there, in a series of "hops".

I'm not convinced that this is viable to be honest - as you say, it seems like it would nonetheless be open to bing corrupted.

But I am interested to see such attempts emerging - and it's easy to experiment with. Also - it's a statement - even if others make the same claim insincerely.