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

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...?"