Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
John Ames <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 18 May 2026 14:54:41 -0400 Jonathan Lamothe <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. Certainly true - but in terms of what people today are using it to *refer* to, it's pretty much *entirely* LLMs until you get down into the bunkers where all the genuine ML nerds from the Before Time are holing up 'til the bubble implodes and they work out a convenient way to explain to normies that "no, we're *not* the greasy used-car sales- men who crashed the stock market while promising to take your jobs and drowning the Internet in a deluge of misinformation, we're the people whose identity they appropriated for credibility's sake, now please put down the torches and pitchforks...?"