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I respond in ways like we did when Wikipedia was new: “Show me a source.” … “No GPT is not a source. Ask it for its sources. Then send me the link.” … “No, Wikipedia is not a source, find the link used in that statement and send me its link.”
If you make people at least have to acknowledge that sources are a thing you’ll find the issues go away. (Because none of these assholes will talk to you anymore anyway. ;) )
GPT will list fake sources. Just in case you aren't aware. Most of these things will.
My municipality used hallucinated references to justify closing down schools.
For what reason?
It made up some references allegedly saying larger schools were better for learning than smaller schools among other things. But the main reason for restructuring the school structure was to save money.
It's government. Reason doesn't enter into it
Hallois tjallabais!
Tracing and verifying sources is standard academic writing procedure. While you definitely can’t trust anything an LLM spits out, you can use them to track down certain types of sources more quickly than search engines. On the other hand, I feel that’s more of an indictment of the late-stage enshittification of search engines, not some special strength of LLMs. If you have to use one, don’t trust it, demand supporting links and references, and verify absolutely everything.
Yep. 100% aware. That’s one of my points - showing its fake. Sometimes enlightening to some folks.
indeed they literally cannot cite sources accurately by way of their function 😬
I’ll still ask the person shoving Ai slop in my face for a source or artist link just to shame these pathetic attempts to pass along slop and misinformation.
Edit for clarity
You can ask it for whatever you want, it will not provide sources.
Ask the person shoving Ai slop in my face for their source.
Not going to ask a racist pile of linear algebra for a fake source.