Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?
Investigating a claim that 100 made-up claims were found in AI papers.
AI can make mistakes 鈥� and AI chatbots like ChatGPT warn you about that whenever you ask them anything.
These mistakes sometimes involve making up entirely fictitious, factually false statements known as 鈥渉allucinations鈥�.
Whether these hallucinations matter depends on what you鈥檙e using AI for, and whether they are spotted and corrected.
The team on More or Less were slightly surprised to read a headline in Fortune magazine, claiming that a top academic AI conference accepted research papers which contained 100 AI-hallucinated citations.
You might think that the top AI researchers in the world would be careful about using AI to write their research papers.
Alex Cui, CTO and co-founder of GPTZero 鈥� whose company discovered the hallucinations 鈥� explains what鈥檚 going on.
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