[Eril-l] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Use of Artificial Intelligence in Visual Arts Librarianship, ISBN 979-8-88517-199-1

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This report explores how visual arts librarians in colleges and
universities are using Bard, ChatGPT, AI-enabled Bing, DallE-2, Midjourney
and other artificial intelligence applications in visual arts
librarianship.  The report furnishes highly specific data on the use of
these and other applications, as well as specific datasets on exactly how
librarians are using these programs.  The study has specific data on use of
AI for image editing, image recognition, image tagging,  image generation
from text, metadata development, data analysis, finding and summarizing
content and other uses of artificial intelligence.  Survey respondents also
answer open ended questions about their current and future plans for AI use
in visual arts librarianship, and about the information sources they use to
learn about AI.

It also looks at the impact of AI on other applications such as Adobe
Photoshop, Artstor, GIMP, Affinity and other applications, precisely
defining the impact of AI on use of each.

This benchmarking study presents data from 24 visual arts librarians from a
range of colleges and universities in the USA and abroad.  Data in the
report is broken out by numerous personal and institutional variables
including age and gender of the respondents, and college private/public
status, Carnegie class or type, enrollment, and tuition level of the much
more.

Just a few of this 132-page report’s many findings are that:

• About 28% of librarians sampled are using artificial intelligence to
summarize content.

• Use of artificial intelligence for image editing was more common by
librarians working at public than private colleges or universities.

• Librarians in specialized art colleges are somewhat more inclined than
others to use AI tools for image recognition and 75% used them “somewhat”
or “a lot” for this purpose.

• 45.83% believe that the introduction of AI tools won't impact their use
of Artstor. 16.67% believe they might use Artstor more and 8.33% felt that
they would use it much more; none felt that they would use it less.

• 29.17% of respondents have used Bard. Most use was by librarians at low
tuition schools with highest use among schools charging less than $9,300
with 50% using Bard.

For a table of contents, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the
product page for this report at:
https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=783
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