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The American Society for Indexing (ASI) committee on AI has released an FAQ about the use of AI in #indexing: asindexing.org/ai-and-index... #IndexSky
AI and Book Indexing FAQs
What is AI? AI stands for “artificial intelligence” and simply means any computer system designed to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. AI includes a range of applications, fr…
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"We have it in our power to begin the world over again" - Thomas Paine On America's 250th birthday, a reminder from one of our most humanist founders: our capacity to create a fairer, more compassionate world is always within grasp.
Happy Tuesday, #IndexSky! The next free Online Index-Manager Training is Wednesday, July 1st, 11:00 am EDT. Katharina Munk will take you through numerous functions to facilitate #indexing work, including post-processing and quality checks. Save your seat here: index-manager.net/en/home/?v=6...
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#indexSky #dailyentry: Greta’s Escarpment Streamside Treefrog (Sarcohyla gretae), 435, 441m, 444, pl. 17.32 -- Happy #indexing, Happy Thursday! @thunberggreta.bsky.social
#indexSky #dailyentry: "Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), 13, 15, plate 8.4" -- Happy #Indexing, Happy Friday!
Charles and I have spent years turning people-first values into real policy. We’ve expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit, improved safety infrastructure around our schools, and paused utility shutoffs for families who needed support.
Happy Monday! Katharina Munk is hosting a FREE online #Index-Manager training Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 12pm EST. She will demonstrate functions to facilitate #indexing , post-processing entries and quality checks. Click here: index-manager.net/en/save-your...
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Online Training Series Index-Manager BasicWe start with a short tour, and you will learn about:help functions, import and open files, adapt layout: add or remove windows, adjust size and positionText...
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Happy Monday! FREE online Index-Manager trainings with Katharina Munk this Wed Feb 25 5pm GMT/12pm EST. Learn functions to facilitate indexing, incl. post-processing and quality checks. Click here to register: index-manager.net/en/save-your... Future trainings: April 29, June 24. Join us! #IndexSky
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#Indexing #dailyentries, while looking out over a bright white snow and ice-covered landscape: snowballs, 380 snowbanking, 380 Happy Indexing, #IndexSky!
In response to ICE’s execution of Renee Nicole Good & violence against our communities, the 50501 Movement is demanding the immediate abolition of ICE & is joining its partners in the Disappeared in America Coalition to announce ICE OUT For Good, a nationwide mobilization scheduled for 1/10 & 1/11.
Happy National Indexing Day! Quality indexes are an essential part of publishing. American Society for Indexing (ASI) has examined gen AI for book indexes. They require expert review to meet basic standards of quality or completeness, navigability, and accuracy: asindexing.org/ai-and-index....
AI and Indexing
As part of ASI’s commitment to excellence in indexing, ASI has formed a committee whose charge is to monitor, assess, investigate, and evaluate the impacts of AI on indexing. The AI Committee’…
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Plenty of protest themes going on with Halloween decorations this year:
Statement on AI and Book #Indexing from ASI: "AI is not currently capable of producing even adequate indexes. High-quality indexes that meet reader needs and expectations still require the fine-grained human judgment of a professional indexer." asindexing.org/ai-news/stat... #IndexSky #bookindexes
Statement on AI and Book Indexing | American Society for Indexing
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#AI lies to us. That’s why Jaime Fernández Fisac created a “bullshit index” to track how and why AI is misleading its users. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinform...
"At this time, AI cannot replace professional book indexers and we are doubtful that it will be able to do so soon, or even at all." #IndexSky asindexing.org/ai-news/whit....
ASI releases white paper “LLM-Generated Book Indexes: Can They Replace Professionally Created Indexes?” | American Society for Indexing
We are developing a Statement on AI based on the white paper, which will include guidance for authors, publishers, and indexers; the statement will be released soon.
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Thank you for the support, Ben Widdicombe and Steve Rubell, “First thing I did,” he said, “was look for the index.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Opinion | What to Look for in a Celebrity Memoir
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last yr.Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Great @indexerscanada.bsky.social session by Elizabeth Bartmess on AI and LLM attempts to index full-length books (with HT @tanyaizzard.bsky.social). Plus how to respond as societies and individual indexers (the ‘context artists’). ‘LLMs are not indexing a book. They are autocompleting an index.’
Free online training for embedded indexing with Index-Manager Wednesday 14 May, 2025! Basic: 11am EDT or 6pm Australian EDT, Advanced: 12pm EDT. Basic sessions: short tour of important functions, focus on 1st steps. Advanced: focuses on editing. Register: lnkd.in/eBEpiSYt. Join us! Happy #indexing!
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#indexers #IndexSky #bookindexers ... and yes, just a leetle nervous and intimidated about the whole thing 😱😎
@indexerscanada.bsky.social · last yr.Join Jolanta Komornicka, Pilar Wyman, Michele Combs, Devon Thomas & Gina Guilinger in the round-table session “X-Men United, Indexers Divided?: Differing Approaches to Indexing the Same Text”, where they discuss different approaches to indexing the same book. Register at www.conference.indexers.ca
Free access to these Indexer articles for a couple more days: the hidden world of indexing, dealing with unconventional texts, medieval names, indexing comic fiction, and the implications of generative AI. Thanks to @livunipress.bsky.social for making these available for #IndexDay.
Celebrating National Indexing Day 2025
National Indexing Day The Society of Indexers is celebrating National Indexing Day for the seventh successive year on Thursday 27th March 2025. This year we will be celebrating with a half-day in-p…
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Hillary Clinton: SignalGate Is Just Dumb [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb (Gift Article)
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
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