Whoa, I thought only corporations were allowed to make up diseases?
Because she works in the medical field, she decided to create a condition related to health and hit on the name bixonimania because it “sounded ridiculous”, she says. “I wanted to be really clear to any physician or any medical staff that this is a made-up condition, because no eye condition would be called mania — that’s a psychiatric term.”
If that wasn’t sufficient to raise suspicions, Osmanovic Thunström planted many clues in the preprints to alert readers that the work was fake. Izgubljenovic works at a non-existent university called Asteria Horizon University in the equally fake Nova City, California. One paper’s acknowledgements thank “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise”. Both papers say they were funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery. This works is a part of a larger funding initiative from the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”.
Even if readers didn’t make it all the way to the ends of the papers, they would have encountered red flags early on, such as statements that “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”.
Your comment is a little too long, but I read up to this point:
Because she works in the medical field
So, now I know enough to know that any AI summary of this paper is absolutely true because science said it.
Also, I’m pleasantly surprised that Sideshow Bob is finally doing something useful.
If it’s plausible enough based on the dataset it was trained on it exists. Hallucinations are basically just the LLM trying to stay current by inference, I think.
Edit: Guess I used the wrong words, oh well
“Hallucinations” are things humans do. An AI can only just be wrong. Even when it makes up data, it’s just a stochastic parrot.
They coined the term “hallucination” as soon as when people realized that the “AI thing” is throwing back bullshit at us.
They had to force that term in people’s head, else we would call that bullshit, lies and so on as we should.
It’s like Google with their “side loading”. There is no such thing, it’s installing an app…
It’s a word war. People are being manipulated.
I concur.
Why do you concur? You have a problem with “hallucinations” because it’s something humans do. This commentor wants to call them (among other things) “lies”, which implies intent and knowledge of falsehood which an LLM definitely can’t have. I’m not saying “halliconations” are super accurate but I don’t think the term is too positive and lessens the major issues LLMs have.
ok. so I think what you see as commenter wants to call them lies is descriptive of what the corporations are pushing (as “hallucinations” but what a reasonable person would call lies)
In other words it’s a “meta” conversation that I concur with. A LLM cannot do human things obviously, but “sales” can portray them as such.
In my day to day usage I make an actual effort to refer to that stuff that is wrong from an LLM as wrong. Not with human focused words.
fair enough
