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ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence

This guide accompanies MLS continuing education opportunities about generative artificial intelligence.

 

MLA 2024 Conference Presentation

"Generative AI and Bad Actors: How Libraries Can Address AI-Created Disinformation"

Download the slides as a PDF or view below:

 

Fall 2023

Slides from the Fall 2023 Continuing Education Workshops, "Generative AI and Libraries: Beyond the Basics and Towards Integration"

August 2023

Resources and ideas mentioned in "Generative Artificial Intelligence and Library Instruction," the first conversation in the MLS Community Chat: Teaching in Libraries series (August 8, 2023).

During the Community Chat, attendees representing all library types discussed two broad questions using an asynchronous Padlet and a synchronous discussion on Zoom:

 

  1. Are you using / do you plan on using generative artificial intelligence tools to help design or implement your library instruction? Which tools, and how are you using them?
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  3. Are you teaching / do you plan on teaching about generative artificial intelligence in your library instruction sessions? What are you teaching about generative AI? Are you following a specific curriculum or lesson plan?

 

 

View the Padlet discussion online or as a PDF: 

 

Tools, resources, and ideas from the discussion:

Generative AI tools mentioned on the Padlet or in Zoom chat:
  • ChatGPT
  • Bard
  • Midjourney (used by commenter for publicity and image generation)
    • Note: Midjourney is not free and requires a Discord account
    • Someone recommended a Bootcamp for Midjourney that gives a background on it
  • Perplexity (used by commenter for research)
  • Elicit (used by commenter for literature reviews)

 

Ideas mentioned in the Zoom chat in response to Question 1 ("Are you using / do you plan on using generative artificial intelligence tools to help design or implement your library instruction? Which tools, and how are you using them?"):
  • "I have used it to help students understand limitations and its possibilities."
  • "I did a search on Bard, for leveled reader assessment citations and got few citations that I can follow up with to find information about assessment for leveled readers. It is just a search to find more information about it. I can find those articles."
  • "I have used it for some basic information for our LibGuides text."
  • "IMO if we use AI for creating content (LibGuides, etc.), we should be transparent about that. It will be educational for our readers as well as ethical to cite the sources."
  • "We will cite ChatGPT similar to the way we cite Creative Commons."

 

Ideas mentioned in the Zoom chat in response to Question 2 ("Are you teaching / do you plan on teaching about generative artificial intelligence in your library instruction sessions? What are you teaching about generative AI? Are you following a specific curriculum or lesson plan?"):

 

Spring 2023

Slides and Jamboards from Spring 2023 Workshops, "ChatGPT and Generative AI: Implications for Libraries and Education"