Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

John Ames <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 18 May 2026 10:46:11 -0400
Jonathan Lamothe <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have never seen an actual definition if what AI *is*.

That's because when you say "a program that does auto-complete using a
large context window as an index to a *very* large reference dataset,
but it plays dice according to the statistical likelihood of a given
word-chain in the reference data" it starts to sound kinda silly and
unreliable.
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