AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers
- "It’s all very meta, but according to a new paper from Stanford scholars, there’s just one (very big) problem: The detectors are not particularly reliable. Worse yet, they are especially unreliable when the real author (a human) is not a native English speaker."
Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots
- "Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives."
Education Department Issues Recommendations on AI
- "The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology released a new report this week. The report acknowledges that the rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) advances is impacting society and summarizes opportunities and risks for AI in teaching, learning, research, and assessment."
Gendered Artificial Intelligence in Libraries
- Historically, the majority of digital assistants, including chatbots, have been assigned names, voices, visual representations, and even "personalities" that are stereotypically feminine and reflect patriarchal ideology. This cross-sectional descriptive study of chatbots associated with large academic libraries in the United States found that there are few extant library chatbots, and in a major departure from trends, there are even fewer that are gendered.