Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Media Literacy
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
K-12
Relevance
Understanding large language models and how they affect information literacy is vital right now.
Proposal
ChatGPT and similar large language models have taken the world by storm. Many librarians and teachers are trying to get up to speed on these new technologies and understand how they will affect information literacy, the classroom, and more. This presentation will give a not-too-technical overview of how these technologies work, what they can be used for, ethical issues of hallucinations, copyright, and potential student plagiarism, and considerations for libraries and librarians to take into account as students and teachers embrace (or avoid!) this form of artificial intelligence. Attendees will come away with a better understanding of what ChatGPT and other large language models can and cannot do, reasons people love, hate, and fear them, and steps a library or librarian can take to begin addressing these technologies. This will include examples of using GPTs to brainstorm lesson plans, exercises, and quiz questions for instruction. This is from a higher education perspective but much is relevant to K-12 as well, particularly high school.
Presentation Description
ChatGPT and similar large language models have taken the world by storm. Come learn the basics of how these technologies work, what they can be used for, ethical issues around them, and how use can use them to help you in information literacy instruction.
Keywords
chatgpt, large language models, LLMs, AI, information literacy
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Little, Lara, "ChatGPT and Friends: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" (2024). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 10.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2024/2024/10
ChatGPT and Friends: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
ChatGPT and similar large language models have taken the world by storm. Many librarians and teachers are trying to get up to speed on these new technologies and understand how they will affect information literacy, the classroom, and more. This presentation will give a not-too-technical overview of how these technologies work, what they can be used for, ethical issues of hallucinations, copyright, and potential student plagiarism, and considerations for libraries and librarians to take into account as students and teachers embrace (or avoid!) this form of artificial intelligence. Attendees will come away with a better understanding of what ChatGPT and other large language models can and cannot do, reasons people love, hate, and fear them, and steps a library or librarian can take to begin addressing these technologies. This will include examples of using GPTs to brainstorm lesson plans, exercises, and quiz questions for instruction. This is from a higher education perspective but much is relevant to K-12 as well, particularly high school.
