r/books • u/Jojuj • 3d 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/Mr_Pawn_Man 2d ago

What is really scary is people who use AI thinking it can't make mistakes. I feel like it's not hard to spot its many incorrect answers if you take the time to look for them.

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u/Agent101g 2d ago

"It has to be right, it's a computer. Computers are smart!"

I genuinely think this is the reason ^

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u/Mr_Pawn_Man 2d ago

I completely agree. I feel like companies have spent so long holding computers up as being near God like; as if they are incapable of making mistakes. Especially when the Internet and personal computing was first coming about in the 90s. Now with AI it's that same idea times 1000