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this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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Maybe, just maybe, AI should do librarian work? Big virtual library where you can just ask a question and instead of answering it AI just points you to category or proposes some specific books?
The present problems with AI/LLM are already apparent.
Imagine a library where the librarian assembles the book for you based on your reading history, the whims of the rich person that paid for the library chain, and corporation that wants you to stay engaged with their chain of libraries. The book is handed to you and it’s written to not offend you or be objectively critical of the subject you’re interested in (because if you are asked to be critical of your views you might be butthurt and not come back), and to align with your existing views. Interleaved in the pages are ads for you, too. Just like print magazines. The sources for the info could be compiled from anywhere, but who needs those anyway? Nobody looks at them. The Librarian is only as good as its programming, so every once in a while it’s just gonna make shit up and it definitely won’t criticize the methodology of its developers.
Every time someone asks for that same book it’s different, because it’s re-written for each individual based on their data-mined profile, their required adult identity proof to use the service, and their subscription information.
Or you could go to a public library, for free, grab two or three books on the same subject and compare different views thoroughly and see where the authors got their information from.
Are you a bot? You responded clearly without reading what I said.
AI hallucinating content - sure, terrible, big issue.
But AI just helping you find the content you want? You know, lige Google Search was supposed to do before enshittification hit.
Also - go to your local library and check what books/topics aren't there. Because sure as shit not every library is some infinite magic space with all the books on all the topics.
We'd still need librarians to do the work at the physical libraries, and they're always going to be the better people to ask. They're not just people who like books; there is a lot of studying and training to be a librarian - I know 2, and they're both among the smartest people I know, and definitely the most well-read. I'd go to them for a book-related question before I do anything else.
It's not as convenient as just typing something up online, but that's kinda the point. Unchecked pursual of convenience is what got us here - do the tried and true thing that takes a bit more effort, and you'll be surprised at how much better it works than the convenient option.
It's sounds like just a search engine.
LLM is pretty much just a text predictor, predicting next word, next sentence etc in the conversation.
Being a search engine sounds like an upgrade.
In majority of cases LLM is downgrade.
I'm pretty sure it already does that