Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Jonathan Lamothe <[email protected]> Mon, 18 May 2026 14:54:41 -0400
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John Ames <[email protected]> writes: > 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. I'd say that's more the definition of an LLM. The term "AI" *vastly* predates LLMs. -- Regards, Jonathan Lamothe https://jlamothe.net - PGP: 9CF2CE03EBF08E8C8B66C3660198463E3CF3FFD1 I � Unicode