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

John Ames wrote:
> 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.
> 
This paragraph will be dated in about six months. Yes, that was how LLMs 
operated, by guessing the next word, but I spoke about this very same 
subject with Google AI (which is one of the more adept ones - it has a 
policy of trying to answer the question rather than avoidance which some 
of the others use when they see something too difficult to answer). It 
told me, and I have no reason to believe that it is lying, that some new 
models complete entire sentences first while others will backtrack to 
certain points if they find they are in a failure or hallucinatory 
state, although this is presently new science.

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