Should libraries focus on preserving physical books, on the experience of reading originals (or physical copies of them)? Or on enabling customers to improve the model of the LLM used? Or even on creating own ones?
Is there even a future role for them, outside of physical backups?
People who read fiction don’t want summaries.
LLMs hallucinate.
Libraries do more than house books. Librarians do FAR more than shelve books.
> Libraries do more than house books. Librarians do FAR more than shelve books.
I know a couple of librarians and 100% of them say that their their job is irrelevant.
As well as their institutions which is in part why I was posting this.
leakycap•4mo ago
I assume very few people go to the library currently to read a summary, why would this change in the future?
The premise of all your questions assume others agree with you that books will be replaced.
The web has been "replacing" books for a long time. Books still exist.
I think LLMs will make knowledge in older books much more accessible via modernization and reinterpretations of now-Copyright-free stories from the past.
woodpanel•4mo ago
Huh? Did I say books will disappear? Libraries and books are a separate thing.
> few people go to the library currently to read a summary
Enlighten me: what do people go to a library for these days?
Saving money? Ok. Not having to buy is a great reason.
Books that are unavailable online to buy? Get stolen eventually if secondary market exists.
So I assume a lot of it is for researching reasons, which is exactly what LLMs can provide.
leakycap•4mo ago
Go to a library and look around and ask librarians - this varies extremely by community. Libraries are very local, and your questions tell me you have not spent much time in yours.