14 hours ago · Life · 0 comments

One of the other librarians emailed this morning asking if the rest of us had gotten an email from an outfit called Librar Labs. We hadn't, but I looked them up. And yeah, this whole webpage can fuck off: Librar Labs How can it fuck off specifically? Let us count the ways: "Librar makes it easier to set up and manage a school library even before you find a librarian." Oh, shut up. Even calling yourself "AI for Librarians" doesn't change the fact that you are CLEARLY gunning for our jobs. This thing is selling itself as a way to replace librarians with $15 an hour parapros. "Point your phone at any shelf. In seconds, every title is identified and ready for action." 1. Oh? And where is all this data going? Who are you going to sell it to? Because Moms for Liberty would LOVE to get its hands on this fucking info. 2. "Ready for action"? Who processed all those books, jackass? And why do you think cataloging is somehow the time- or labor-intensive half of "process and catalog"? Because I…

No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.