ChatGPT: Making Law Librarians More Relevant Than Ever!
Start Date
3-8-2023 2:00 PM
Description
This session will explore how instructors – especially those grading written work – need to be extra careful in following up with source citations. I recently ran an experiment using an actual – and somewhat simple – research question, using both ChatGPT(4) and Bard. The results looked amazing, high quality, and included links. The only problem? As far as I could tell, none of the sources it listed actually existed, and even more worryingly the very authentic-looking URLs given were also totally made up.
Those of us working in legal academia, therefore, need to be better trained on the basic information literacy tools long used in other areas of higher education to help combat misinformation and fake news – most notably the “SIFT method”. Law librarians have long helped law review editors source sketchy citations, but now we may be called in to assist in other ways as professors battle with AI-generated – and completely made up – sources. Understanding how we can engage these tools in a ChatGPT world will help make us more relevant than ever.
ChatGPT: Making Law Librarians More Relevant Than Ever!
This session will explore how instructors – especially those grading written work – need to be extra careful in following up with source citations. I recently ran an experiment using an actual – and somewhat simple – research question, using both ChatGPT(4) and Bard. The results looked amazing, high quality, and included links. The only problem? As far as I could tell, none of the sources it listed actually existed, and even more worryingly the very authentic-looking URLs given were also totally made up.
Those of us working in legal academia, therefore, need to be better trained on the basic information literacy tools long used in other areas of higher education to help combat misinformation and fake news – most notably the “SIFT method”. Law librarians have long helped law review editors source sketchy citations, but now we may be called in to assist in other ways as professors battle with AI-generated – and completely made up – sources. Understanding how we can engage these tools in a ChatGPT world will help make us more relevant than ever.
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