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AI-Indexing: Usability review

September 2025 Prepared by ASI AI Committee AI-Indexing is web-based indexing software developed by Ben Vagle. It employs large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) to select terms for indexing, detect duplicates, and suggest relationships. Although...

ASI releases white paper “LLM-Generated Book Indexes: Can They Replace Professionally Created Indexes?”

August, 2025 The AI Committee of the American Society for Indexing is pleased to announce the release of our white paper investigating the quality of LLM-generated book indexes, “LLM-Generated Book Indexes: Can They Replace Professionally Created Indexes?”...

IndexStudio Review

August 2025 Prepared by ASI AI Committee IndexStudio, an LLM-based indexing service, claims on its website that it allows users to “create professional book indexes in a fraction of the time” and that its AI1 generates “comprehensive entries.” It is marketed to...

ASI initiatives in response to AI indexes

You may have recently seen threads on indexing discussion lists about AI. It’s a topic many of us are aware of and concerned about. At this time, however, it looks like AI chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) do not make adequate indexes. Consequently, our...

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