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.

Short 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

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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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.