As far as I can tell, this is where this page comes from - it basically will build that page for any correctly formatted url - knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Produc...

Alma is more of the librarian side of things (cataloging, acquisitions, etc) that has a couple patron-facing features. Primo is more patron-facing discovery, but they’re very intertwined and they try to get institutions to buy both.

When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

This looks an awful lot like the Alma public interface, owned by Ex Libris, which also owns Primo, which is used a lot for library discovery.

…& should be framed less as "how bad" or even "are we heading toward an AI bubble," but rather "here's the most solid indicator yet that this current paradigm of AI doesn't live up to the hype."

Because the study in question (👇🏾) finds "when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than [w/o]"…

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