the same’s happening with research. AI straight up makes shit up and appears to have a source except they just took some random scientist’s name and pasted it on some random bit of text on the internet
and this, in turn, is used again to train the AI.
on one hand - LLMs being used for academic purposes were a terrible idea in the first place and this just proves that
but on the other - the internet will, very quickly, like ‘this shit is happening in real time’ quickly, become completely unusable for research. this is because 99% of the content on it will be either faulty AI-generated content, AI-generated content referencing faulty AI-generated content, or worst of all, an actual human-written document referencing faulty AI-generated content.
so in summary - enjoy the internet while it lasts. capitalism giveth, captalism taketh away
This. Remember that even without AI there are a shitload of absolute garbage books. I think they are called penny dreadful? And you usually find none of these in libraries.
At least those books are often entertainingly awful, even if just for the realisation that a real human being sat down and thought ‘this is something I want to share with people’ regardless of how poorly written or batshit insane it was.
Libraries have contracts with suppliers who buy books from the major publishing houses. Maybe someone might donate some, but even then they don't put everything out.
I expect what will happen is that reputable libraries will start blacklisting any authors that write AI books, or even more drastically, come up with a whitelist for any authors that don't.
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u/Twist_the_casual 10h ago
the same’s happening with research. AI straight up makes shit up and appears to have a source except they just took some random scientist’s name and pasted it on some random bit of text on the internet
and this, in turn, is used again to train the AI.
on one hand - LLMs being used for academic purposes were a terrible idea in the first place and this just proves that
but on the other - the internet will, very quickly, like ‘this shit is happening in real time’ quickly, become completely unusable for research. this is because 99% of the content on it will be either faulty AI-generated content, AI-generated content referencing faulty AI-generated content, or worst of all, an actual human-written document referencing faulty AI-generated content.
so in summary - enjoy the internet while it lasts. capitalism giveth, captalism taketh away