Are we getting mechanical turked?
Every so often our branch will get a call from an out of state number from someone asking for half a dozen title checks without any real consistency: some titles are YA or children's books, some are fiction, some are nonfiction. They'll give the title, author if you ask for it, and ask us to confirm the title in full and whether we have it or not. Normally I wouldn't think anything of it, but I had a possibly paranoid shower thought because none of these people take me up on my offer to put the titles we do have on hold (and some of it's genuinely weird stuff that doesn't make sense for a rural collection in an ag community), and now I'm wondering if mine and my coworker's voices are being used to train the orphan crushing machines someone's LLM.
Do any of you get these calls?