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

phoenix wrote:
> 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.
> 

dumb people will succomb to their dumbness with ai. at this point 
in time, ai is an enabler and not exactly a supporter.