Re: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

From	Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net>
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	2026-05-19 12:11 -0400
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Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> writes:

> On Mon, 18 May 2026 14:54:41 -0400, Jonathan Lamothe
> <jonathan@jlamothe.net> wrote:
>
>>John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>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?

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