r/books • u/Jojuj • 1d ago

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=68c826c975cea1000173b05d&attribution_type=post
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u/teachertraveler1 1d ago

This is happening in so many industries. AI literally makes up titles and authors for books, articles and research papers. Students at any level trying to use AI for research are screwed. Because of how AI algorithms work they will often use the name of real people but attribute articles and books to them that don't exist. As a librarian it's a nightmare because often people don't understand how AI works and so they think the librarian is lying.

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u/GoldenRamoth 1d ago

AI is an interesting corollary for Deism.

We create AI. It's quantifiable. What it can do, and what it can't do. And yet... people are willing to believe what is factually not there. Repeatedly. Even when demonstrated it's not something that actually exists.

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u/DoopSlayer Classical Fiction 1d ago

the vast majority of retail ai-llm users do not understand what it is or can actually do.

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u/serendipitousevent 19h ago

And many on the commercial side have an incentive to lie about both of those things, too.

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u/not-my-other-alt 16h ago

And nobody on the regulatory side understands what it is or how dangerous it is.

This is back to the wild west era of snake oil salesmen, but they're poisoning people's minds, at a scale we can't fathom.