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

The True Melissa wrote:
> 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.

They are definitely in the business of the confidence game. One of the 
AIs had me nearly convinced it was looking at me through the webcam, as 
we communicated. However, another AI informed me that the trickster had 
been hallucinating to deceive.

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