Reading list in advertorial supplement contains 66% made up books with real author names.

This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list’s author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    AI assistants such as ChatGPT are well-known for creating plausible-sounding errors known as confabulations especially when lacking detailed information on a particular topic.

    No, they are hallucinations or bullshit. I won’t accept any other terms.

    • o7___o7@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If it makes you feel better, I’ve heard good folks like Emily Bender of Stochastic Parrots fame suggest confabulation is a better term. “Hallucination” implies that LLMs have qualia and are accidentally sprinkling falsehoods over a true story. Confabulation better illustrates that it’s producing a bullshit milkshake from its training data that can only be correct accidentally.