arXiv has also said "if we catch AI guano in your work, it's out and you're out."
Good.
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mastodon 4.7.3The Library Loon (Gavia libraria) inhabits the North American library environment. Her name derives from her unmistakably weird and sometimes unsavory way of expressing herself. She is a large, solitary, and rather unfortunately pugnacious creature, alert to her surroundings, quite shy of online environments as well as many professional ones.
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RE: @petersuber@fediscience.org
Every single paper with a fake citation should be redacted and the authors barred from the publication.
Authors with more than one article in the set should be fired.
Zero tolerance. It is the only way to be sure.
Apropos of the Loon's recent post on sanctions for authors whose articles include AI slop citations, this by Dr. Dorothea Baur: https://dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and-media/hallucinated-references-five-excuses-for-academic-misconduct/
This piece by @TheyOfHIShirts@glammr.us will resonate with Coordinators, dumpster-job holders, innovation shields, and folk in similar positions.
Well, well, well.
This is well done of the Association for Computational Linguistics. May it be swiftly adapted and adopted in many more venues.
This is really rather good.
It stops short of a rigorous examination of the ethics of using commercial AI at all, and that omission deserves to be rectified, but otherwise, this is really rather good.
RE: https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/digital-dark-times-salaries-in-digital-preservation/
This job is indeed the worst. Coordinator Syndromed dumpster job.
The Loon would add to @beet_keeper@digipres.club's excellent takedown that no one else in the Serpentine will understand, and few if any value, what the person in this job does. That will make the policy parts of this job flatly impossible, everything else merely absurdly difficult.
Vietnam is doing it. Pray what is everyone else's excuse?
New post on Gavia Libraria, in #ScholarlyCommunication:
Won’t get hoaxed again
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@rowmyboat@glammr.us "What happens when a single grain of guano is emplaced in a soup?" may also be an apropos question.
Classic hybrid job. Completely senseless combination of distinct types of work.
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This is probably not news, but nonetheless: a suspiciously low salary for the demanded knowledge, skills, and experience is a strong sign that the employer does not value the work.
Replying to
With entire bluntness: court libraries, librarians, and relevant library associations now or expect this initiative to fail miserably.
Not doing so before launch has made this necessary work immensely harder. That does not mean the launchers can walk away from it.
New post on Gavia Libraria, in #EtCetera:
W(h)ither “… and AI”?
Loonish predictions borne out:
* "More trumpeted triumphalist trials of generative AI for useful ends that fizzle on closer examination." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/influential-study-touting-chatgpt-in-education-retracted-over-red-flags/
* "At least one major social-media platform will come out swinging against age verification." Not quite coming out swinging, but still an indicator: https://qz.com/roblox-full-year-forecast-cut-age-verification-user-growth-050126
And it is only May. The Loon has had worse prediction years.
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@rowmyboat@glammr.us Exactly so. Do not guano the Loon (or anyone else) and say it matters whether the guano is dross or fertilizer.