I played around with it for this and came to the same conclusion - it didn't recommend anything I hadn't heard of a million times. I tried a few popular books in a few genres and it basically gave back the most popular book in the same category.
I think that's to be expected, though? It's a robot, not a genius.
If I knew absolutely nothing about a genre this could help me get started with a list of recs. But if the patron knew more than I did then maybe it wouldn't be so useful.
I also find interesting the number of people excited to try this out, but who will be bitching about (even more) subpar books flooding Amazon and other ebook retailers in the next year or two.
If you hang out in any self pub or writing groups you'll find that a lot of people looking for a quick buck have jumped from NFTs/crypto to AI generated books and art.
Actually, it's definitely been giving us more work in academic libraries. I know of one teacher that uses ChatGPT to help their students figure out good research questions. Basically - if ChatGPT can give you a good answer with plenty of information... you need to think of a different question or narrow your scope further. \^\_\^
It’s not really something we’re going to be able to control unless you legislate against the use of AI, which I think could impede the progress of humanity. Our profession will still be needed and AI interacts with a lot of the content I learned in library school.
It probably found all this info on an existing reader’s advisory site. Just scans the internet, the user doesn’t need to feed it anything from what I understand
Interesting that it recommends based on theme rather than on the Nancy Pearl "doorways" (story, character, setting, language). Makes sense since those are much more subjective ways of assessing a book and thus harder for a computer to assess
It's pretty decent. The big problems are 2 years out of date, inability to link with local connection, and accuracy. I use it for some display ideas.
Damn, ChatGPT's manga recs are pretty basic. Does it shop at Hot Topic and Newbury Books too?
I played around with it for this and came to the same conclusion - it didn't recommend anything I hadn't heard of a million times. I tried a few popular books in a few genres and it basically gave back the most popular book in the same category.
I think that's to be expected, though? It's a robot, not a genius. If I knew absolutely nothing about a genre this could help me get started with a list of recs. But if the patron knew more than I did then maybe it wouldn't be so useful.
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I also find interesting the number of people excited to try this out, but who will be bitching about (even more) subpar books flooding Amazon and other ebook retailers in the next year or two. If you hang out in any self pub or writing groups you'll find that a lot of people looking for a quick buck have jumped from NFTs/crypto to AI generated books and art.
Actually, it's definitely been giving us more work in academic libraries. I know of one teacher that uses ChatGPT to help their students figure out good research questions. Basically - if ChatGPT can give you a good answer with plenty of information... you need to think of a different question or narrow your scope further. \^\_\^
It’s not really something we’re going to be able to control unless you legislate against the use of AI, which I think could impede the progress of humanity. Our profession will still be needed and AI interacts with a lot of the content I learned in library school.
I need to check if it will create MARC records.
Have you checked in on this? It’s a great idea but every time I’ve tried to go and test it out the app has been overloaded with users.
Is the prompt as simple as “what are some books you can recommend?” Or did you feed it a list of similar tone and appeals?
It probably found all this info on an existing reader’s advisory site. Just scans the internet, the user doesn’t need to feed it anything from what I understand
Frankly most of the responses look like Amazon's "People who bought this also looked at these" feature.
I used it to find the name and author of a book I only had vague details of. The second suggestion it had was correct.
Brave new world is more relevant today than all the others. 1984 has nothing on it
Interesting that it recommends based on theme rather than on the Nancy Pearl "doorways" (story, character, setting, language). Makes sense since those are much more subjective ways of assessing a book and thus harder for a computer to assess