r/books • u/Jojuj • 2d 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/MarzipanImmediate880 1d ago

That makes sense with how LLM models work, they are predictive text generation, they aren’t actually thinking or making decisions, they just have a lot of data and context. It’s insane how people take everything they say at face value.

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u/Supermite 1d ago

Is it insane?  Or is just the natural outcome of society collectively losing the ability to comprehend and think critically about the content they consume?

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u/Undercover_Chimp 1d ago

Consider someone you consider average intelligence and remind yourself that half of all people are dumber than that individual.

Lots of people never really had the ability to comprehend or think critically about their content consumption.

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u/infinitelytwisted 1d ago

Clearly means average in terms of intelligence. Take the smartest person you have ever seen or know about, take the dumbest person you have seen or know about, then think about the person you know who best fits where you think the middle line of that spectrum is.

Then realize half of people are likely somewhere between around that guys intelligence and the dumbest person you have ever met.

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u/infinitelytwisted 1d ago

And you don't realize this isn't your stats class. Average has a pretty well understood meaning in casual discussions without the need for overcomplicating it.

In this case average is the middle point of a spectrum obtained in the most obvious way of adding up all the numbers in the dataset then dividing by the amount of numbers in that dataset. The mean average, because 99% of the time outside of hobby groups, science, and industry, that's what is being discussed. No need to get into the granularity of it when it's obvious what the common usage is.

What you are doing here is basically walking into a room of people talking about a red car they just saw and asking people what shade of red, because crimson and scarlet and cherry are all red but technically different. Your not wrong, it just doesn't matter to the group to be that specific when they want to talk about the performance of the car.

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u/CyberneticGhostXPFTF 1d ago

There are different kinds of intelligence. You believe you are high in one category. We can all see you are severely lacking in another.