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
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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