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

phoenix wrote:
> 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.
> 

i am not complaining about ai, i am complaining about people. i 
can explain it in simpler words, i know words.