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Speaker 1: If you listen to the show yesterday, you know I

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Speaker 1: talked a lot about AI and AI taking over our

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Speaker 1: lives and taking over our jobs. Well, here's another prime

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Speaker 1: example of this. Turns out quite a few New Zealand's

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Speaker 1: Live of New Zealand's libraries either already have or are

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Speaker 1: open to stocking books written by AI authors. Laura Marshall

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Speaker 1: is the executive director at Library and Information Association New Zealand. Laura,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning, Ryan Is. Do you know of

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Speaker 1: any AI written books in libraries yourself?

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Speaker 2: Yes, there are a few, but from our experience and

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Speaker 2: talking to library managers, there's not that many. There's only

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Speaker 2: a couple. There's only a couple of supplies that even

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Speaker 2: provide them in New Zealand. So I don't believe that

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Speaker 2: there as many within New Zealand libraries.

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Speaker 1: Yet would you read one?

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Speaker 2: I'd probably read one just to see what it was like.

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Speaker 2: But to be honest, I think they're just an interpretation

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Speaker 2: of our thoughts. I think it's just a good copy,

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Speaker 2: so I'm not really there interested in exploring them long term,

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Speaker 2: but I'd probably read one just to see what it

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Speaker 2: was like.

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Speaker 1: This is the problem, though, what if you read it

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Speaker 1: and it's good, you know, I mean, is that a

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Speaker 1: little bit scary that thought?

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Speaker 2: To be honest, when I use AI myself, it's interpreting

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Speaker 2: my thoughts, but it never comes out perfect, and it's

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Speaker 2: never enough to entice me to think that it could

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Speaker 2: replace myself, or it's we give it the information. I

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Speaker 2: don't truly believe that AI could tell our stories. Especially

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand, we have very next stories. You have

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Speaker 2: people's experience as almost doing it's just interpreting those stories

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Speaker 2: and that information, and I don't believe that it can

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Speaker 2: really do that very well.

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Speaker 1: Yet does AI?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I suppose the internet generally. Sometimes I'm surprised

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Speaker 1: libraries are still going. But then but then I walked

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Speaker 1: past them and they are full. So how do you

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Speaker 1: explain that with the Internet.

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Speaker 2: So libraries are also community hubs to meet people, it's

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Speaker 2: places to go to community programs, it's places to interact.

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Speaker 2: They really are quite an amazing ecosystem. They also reflect

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Speaker 2: the community, so they're an amazing place. But believe it

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Speaker 2: or not, issues and libraries are actually going up. Just

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Speaker 2: because someone's reading a book online or on their iPad,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't mean they're not reading, so issues are just

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Speaker 2: going through the through the roof. Libraries have never been

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Speaker 2: more successful. They're just an amazing ecosystem, an amazing place,

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Speaker 2: and I don't think AI and the Internet is going

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Speaker 2: to turn that around.

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Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, What about if there's a book that's written

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Speaker 1: by AI that's really good and that people want, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's people are asking it reception, whatever do

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Speaker 1: you think do you think her libraries should provide it?

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Speaker 2: Yes, libraries usually do stock customer requests and it comes

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Speaker 2: down to how many times a book is issued. No,

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Speaker 2: I doubt they're going to fill an entire library full

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Speaker 2: of AI written books. And if we had this conversation

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Speaker 2: of five years, Ryan, I doubt there would be that

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Speaker 2: many books that we've good enough to pass the test

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Speaker 2: to get into the library. But yes, we do respond

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Speaker 2: to the public as well. We have to respond to

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Speaker 2: what people want to read. And I also believe that

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Speaker 2: if you're reading anything, it's better than reading nothing, getting

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Speaker 2: into the habit of literacy and reading a book, so

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Speaker 2: better better than nothing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, Laura, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming on the show. Laura Marshall. Library and Information

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Speaker 1: Association of New Zealand. For more from Early Edition with

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