Oh hey, it was indeed just Latam-GPT! www.latamgpt.org/en

I'll have a look at my notes when I'm at my computer again and get you the exact name, but on the theme of "everything has a cost," I wonder how the mental math of a tool's value changes with the tools provenance.

More grappling needed!

Yeah, thinking about how to mitigate global harms is a bigger issue in always noodling.

I was in CDMX a month ago for a conference about distance education, the convo there was adjacent but also very different (understandably so!). One thing mentioned was community efforts to create a LatamGPT.

for me refusal is about protest (& broadly a feminist pedagogy), which i know is not something every library worker is interested in, or even feeling capable of engaging with. the goal of critique (& the goal of my questioning, posting, scholarship) at large is to increase possibility of capability

Thanks for engaging and grappling!

Also, I agree that AI refusal doesn't always mean shaming others! But, sometimes it does, and I think that's a problem worth addressing. *Especially* b/c it IS possible to refuse AI without shaming others.

I'm glad you mentioned that, and bummed that it didn't get shared b/c it deserves airtime.

Re: abstinence vs harm reduction, I agree it's not a binary but a spectrum w/overuse on one end and refusal on the other. Framed thus, I think harm reduction IS the space in between.

It can get folks to more critical use, or even nonuse! But to get there, we have to meet people where they are.

Hey! I saw you asked a question during the session but it didn't get answered, and just wanted to get you one because it was a good one. For sake of word limit, screenshot with alt-text containing the whole thing, with answer to follow. Hope that's okay!

Local (separate from individual, which are also important) actions have the potential to inspire broader action, esp. among institutions. So:

-Demand better options/behavior from our vendors
-Judicious vs. regular AI use
-Host communities of learning
-Host local models
-Seek community input!

(Public) library usage is actually pretty strong, thanks in part to our ability to adapt to changing tech landscape! I think the real challenge is how do we spin up in-house expertise though, since we've outsourced a lot of our tech.

Most lib'ns are not technologists, and reskilling is hard.

A: To be fair, libraries have a strong track record of coexisting and even using our ostensible replacements (google and search, e-books and print media, wikipedia and reference questions, zoom and public meeting spaces), so *existentially* I'm not nervous. Not about THAT, anyhow.

But/And...

Case in point

Oh and I guess to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social upon whose book I riffed the name. Because of course I did. Because I'm a librarian.

Books, y'all!