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@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-05-28 23:46:04

University of Chicago Becker-Friedman Institute of Economics just published research this April 2025 of how Generative AI has had "almost no significant wage or labor impact so far".
✅ Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
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Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects

We examine the labor market effects of AI chatbots using two large-scale adoption surveys (late 2023 and 2024) covering 11 exposed

@timelfen@assemblag.es
2025-04-17 22:43:41

Just read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.

Article abstract: "We investigate in this article how repository platforms change the sharing and preservation of digital objects in academic libraries. We use evidence drawn from semi- structured interviews with 31 data repository managers working at 21 universities using the product Figshare for institutions. We first show that repository managers use this platform to bring together actors, technologies, and processes usually scattered across the library to assign to them the tasks that they …