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ChatGPT vs PackBack

From the ACC Office of Distance and Alternative Education: "Packback is an AI-powered discussion and writing tool that improves student outcomes through instant feedback. The Packback / ACC partnership means that the entire suite is free for use by all faculty and students. This includes Packback Deep DivesQuestions, and Instruct."

Packback Deep Dives includes a set of AI "assistants," including the “'Digital Research Assistant,' an AI assistant that provides instant feedback on the credibility and quality of sources, and generates citations instantly in APA or MLA format," according to the Packback Deep Dives webpage.

Whereas ChatGPT will actually discover sources (or invent fictional ones and then insist it didn't) and provide citations for them, Packback Deep Dives appears to only provide feedback on the credibility of student-generated sources, and will also provide accurate APA and MLA citations for them. 

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AI & Information Literacy

Where does ChatGPT fit into the Framework for Information Literacy?

The possibilities and problems of AI in library instruction

Amy B. James and Ellen Hampton Filgo

Provides examples of teaching information literacy with ChatGPT, specific to each of the tenets of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. Read the Full Text

"One compelling argument by Christopher Grobe in the Chronicle of Higher Education suggests that what generative AI can help us with is to “provide new starting points for some of the processes we routinely use to think.”5 We agree with Grobe’s argument that ChatGPT can give us a good starting point from which to work. The text generated by ChatGPT in the screenshot at the start of this article is an overly optimistic and idealized view of itself. We hope that in this article we can add the nuance that it lacks."


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