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I have a number of librarian acquaintances who seem to cope with the gradual disappearance/destruction of their careers by telling themselves "one day, they'll get sick of current state, and they'll be back ". I hope it's true.
I don't know about that, but maybe they will try to create a new platform with their own expertise? There is clearly some public for that.
i have an idea for that, but i think things like GPT will thwart it. machine learning is great, but it's not connected to human understanding. that is what librarians did was take non-human information and bridge it with a shortcut to human understanding on a broad basis. software can manage the information really well, but no one has designed a thing that bridges genuine human "knowing" with machine "knowing".