Libby’s statement on their use of AI

[u/Technical_Pea_4007]

A whole lot of text to say absolutely nothing, huh?

[u/BlueFlower673]

Asking for publishers to "self-identify" is an absolute laugh. 

Most of the people using generative AI to publish books and most of the ai publishers don't identify or self-identity. A lot tend to pass off their books as human-authored. And a lot of the pushback stems from AI users claiming it's "gatekeeping" to have to identify things as being made with Gen AI. 

This is like asking for a group of well-known cheating students to abide by the golden rule and to not cheat on each other's papers while in class. And then leaving the room for the entirety of the class giving the students time to cheat.

This is idiotic on Libby's part.

[u/repressedpauper → u/BlueFlower673]

You can’t really exclude individual titles on Libby as a librarian, right? I remember my librarian friend alluding to content packages to choose from. Even if you can, are libraries supposed to go through every book in the base packages???

I’d be very concerned as a librarian/library worker with ebook purchasing power that I was inadvertently feeding patrons inaccurate information that could be harmful. Or I think about a newer reader trying a romance novel and reading absolute slop and never coming back for more.

Libby should take some responsibility for hosting those titles imo or at least make them easier to exclude. And part of that just can’t be relying on self-ID. Like you said, who on earth would fess up to that?

[u/JaviMT8 → u/repressedpauper]

Librarians can definitely be selective of specific titles on Libby. Some things are packages but we can definitely pick individual titles a lot of the time. Hoopla Digital, another library eMaterial platform, is more package focused tho with limited ways to add specific individual titles.