Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Jonathan Lamothe <[email protected]> Tue, 19 May 2026 12:11:32 -0400
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Steve Hayes <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, 18 May 2026 14:54:41 -0400, Jonathan Lamothe > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>John Ames <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Mon, 18 May 2026 10:46:11 -0400 >>> Jonathan Lamothe <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I have never seen an actual definition if what AI *is*. >>> >>> 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. > > And is not really accurate when applied to LLMs. What, specifically, would you say is inaccurate about it? -- Regards, Jonathan Lamothe https://jlamothe.net - PGP: 9CF2CE03EBF08E8C8B66C3660198463E3CF3FFD1 I � Unicode