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

jojo wrote:
> 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.
> 
Everybody's complaining including you. I'm sorry that you feel too dumb 
to use AI. We are trying to be constructive here and talk about what 
good AI can do. What I can't understand is that it takes regular English 
phrases but everybody keeps saying it's HARD.

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