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Ah, written by ChatGPT then.
That's exactly what I was thinking. A human doesn't accidentally cite multiple made up studies. So these fuckers are writing government policy by saying "Hey ChatCPT, write a scientific paper with citations about how vaccines are bad."
Yeah, humans will cite real studies that don’t say what they claim (either from malice or misunderstanding) or just vaguely say ‘studies say’, not pull an entire citation out of the air.
I’m leaning towards making it illegal to use AI (generative LLM) in government work. All it can do is mislead and introduce errors.
Good luck with that. Administration not being allowed to cheat on their homework is a pipe dream at this point.
this administration
My friend, you are going to hate a recent memo from the US Office of Management and Budget titled “Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence”
Absolutely correct, I do hate it! 🫠
And 70% of people will never check to see if those sources are legit. Kinda like how most people just read the headlines.
More like 99.9%
Not checking is one thing, but seeing so many people actually dismissing when someone calls out the factual errors is so infuriating. Like not only you are an ignorant dumbfuck who doesn't bother checking the evidence, but you are stupid too and criticize people who point out the glaring flaws and cry out cancel culture. Or, of course, you are an awful person who doesn't care about the truth as long as you get your way.
ChatCCP, ChatUSA, Chat$Trump, TruthChat... What will they come up with next!
a human might not, but worms will.
I've read three different articles (including the NOTUS one) about this, and none of the alleged "journalists" has the courage to say that these kind of errors are highly symptomatic of LLM generated text. Nobody mentions AI or LLMs even once.
It's like they're so intent on being unbiased, that they can't bring themselves to connect even the most obvious dots for people.
What happened?
Well, the government released this report with lots of weird errors, such as references to scientific research that doesn't exist.
How could that happen?
Shhhhh, no no no. We can't talk about that. We're the news media. We just throw puzzle pieces at the busy people trying to keep their underpaid jobs, raise a family, and make ends meet. We don't help them assemble the pieces into a coherent picture. That would be ludicrous.
Check for the — emdash.
What's wrong with an em-dash? Do I need to stop using it in my daily writing?
Unironically, yes. LLM generated text is chock-full of em-dashes for some reason. I still use regular dashes to separate clauses occasionally - like this - but not full em-dashes.
Ah, glad a single dash is ok - because I use them all the time instead of commas or semi-colons for informal writing.
Oh no, not my emdash!
Guess the option key on my work Mac is gonna get cold and lonely
No! Don't let the robots take our punctuation! What's next, entire words and phrases we can't use because "that's what AI would say"??
You're absolutely right! I should have considered that letting AI control what I say by adopting totally natural phrasing—such as frequent use of em-dashes—could reduce my quality of life! Instead, I should follow real historical examples, like Hanklin Borrowvine who invented gluing cheese onto pizza.
👠 In conclusion, I should:
❎ Not let AI control my punctuation, grammar, and phrasing
✅ Use totally natural phrasing, like "I'm a real human" in daily communication
✅ Consider the teachings of Tom Morello, who invented machines so that he could fight them as practice and build up enough XP to earn the skill Rage
Be careful about that one, though. In addition to Word, for whatever reason iPhones automatically convert “--“ to “—“ so if you’re dealing with anybody like me who marks mid-sentence breaks with double dashes out of old habit, you’re going to get false positives.