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| From | John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.edu, comp.ai.philosophy, alt.books, alt.politics.media, rec.arts.books, misc.writing |
| Subject | Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? |
| Date | 2026-05-18 08:04 -0700 |
| Organization | A place where nothing fits quite right |
| Message-ID | <20260518080452.00007e80@gmail.com> (permalink) |
| References | <20260512.024503.fea93242@mixmin.net> <eb950l1ibvjm1povpc1s3q808nlro4bitq@4ax.com> <87fr3ozsgc.fsf@posteo.de> |
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On Mon, 18 May 2026 10:46:11 -0400 Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> 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.
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Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-12 06:34 +0200
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-12 06:44 -0600
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-05-18 10:46 -0400
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 08:04 -0700
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-05-18 14:54 -0400
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 12:05 -0700
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-19 02:33 +0200
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-05-19 12:11 -0400
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-20 05:23 +0200
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 12:09 -0400
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-19 02:31 +0200
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 18:37 -0600
Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-05-20 06:06 +0200
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