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Re:Twilight of the Libraries: What Gets Lost When Books Go O... by Spooky23 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @03:25PM (#34987811)
Yes, instead of technical limitations of OCR, we’ll have inscrutable language models making up random shit, and people too lazy to look at the primary source material.
Re:Twilight of the Libraries: What Gets Lost When Books Go O... by onecommentman on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:06PM (#34990628)
I foresee a day when the expectation for any peer-reviewed article in a major journal will be to provide proof that every citation was validated against a physical copy of the material cited, not just an online version of the citation. Give the grad students something useful to do…get a free flight to the appropriate physical repository, tour around the campus, meet some friends…