A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don’t exist.
A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don’t exist.
I’m curious to see if AI tech can actually help fight some of the bullshit out there someday. I agree that current AI is only making it easier to produce bullshit, but I think with some advances it could be used to parse a long-winded batch of bullshit, and summarize it, maybe with bullet points about how the source material is wrong. If they can make an AI as confident as chatgpt, but without as much of the “makes stuff up left and right” it could be useful.
THEN we just have to worry about who owns the AI that parses and summarizes the info we take in, and what kind of biases they’ve baked into the tech…
It is one of the most difficult problems on earth: to decide between lie or truth.
And then think about the fine line when detecting irony, half-irony or other forms of humoristic non-truth.
Those AI are the best ones to produce fake scientific papers. It’s a cat and mouse game again. Those who can detect bullshit can produce the best bullshit.