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

Jonathan Lamothe wrote:
> Steve Hayes <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> <snip>
>> On Tue, 12 May 2026 02:45:03 +0100, Lawfare Review
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> LLM bots can be useful tools but they are not AI, and are not
>> reliable.
> 
> I have never seen an actual definition if what AI *is*.  Infind it to be
> a rather useless term fornthat reason.
> 
>> They are not intelligent or sentient (though the programmers
>> of some of them try to make them appear so). They do not "understand"
>> what they are fed, or what they spit out. Their use in education
>> should be limited to what they are good at, and one needs education
>> apart form LLM bots to be able to discern what they are good at and
>> what they are not good at. If students use them to write essays, they
>> will not learn that discernment.
> 
> I don't knownthat there's an argument to be made that they're
> particularly good at *anything*.

I find that they are quite good so long as you avoid the fringe. The 
deeper you push into a subject or the more non-conformist the issue you 
are going to find disturbing concerns. I was quite delighted with my 
researches on two different subjects yesterday:

Western Civilization and the fault in people.

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver vs. Legacy of Kain: Defiance.

See, I'm not trying to do my homework in these anymore. That always 
leads to bad consequences. They don't test me on this stuff if it were 
common knowledge or readily available from the human pool that is above 
the waterfall into large quantities of language texts.

BTW I was just kidding with that guy about him doing a bad job reviewing 
the paper. Clearly this is not something AI are made for just yet, but 
it was mildly comical that he pointed no blame at himself.

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