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

Verily, in article <[email protected]>, did [email protected] 
deliver unto us this message:
> I usually tell people the following about LLMs:
> 
> Ask it questions about a subject you know well.  See how long it takes
> it to tell you sonething inaccurate.  Ask yourself if you'd have caught
> the mistake if you didn't have the knowledge you do.  Finally, ask
> yourself: do you still trust the LLM?
> 

It's a handy exercise, but I'm not sure how much it would help. 
Confidence is such a useful trick to sucker humans. I once saw a study 
which said that we weigh confidence more heavily than a person's actual 
track record when deciding whether to believe. 

It works just as well on other humans. I recently read a book which 
included a survey of an impact on the various arts, and when I got to 
the music section, I realized the writer wasn't very well informed. For 
no rational reason, the sections about which I knew less still felt 
convincing. 

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