If it were convincing lies made to deceive, then sure. But in this case the papers were deliberately made to be immediately obviously fake, to anyone actually reading them.
So I guess the question would be “would humans do the same thing if someone literally writes obvious jokes on the internet?”
More shockingly, three Indian researchers published a research paper that cited the preprint on the fake disease in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer. It was subsequently retracted.
That’s how we ended up with modern day anti-vaxxers but at least with humans you can strangle the dude responsible. LLMs function like modern idols that the makers use to get away with.
Wouldn’t humans do the same thing if someone literally writes lies on the internet?
If it were convincing lies made to deceive, then sure. But in this case the papers were deliberately made to be immediately obviously fake, to anyone actually reading them.
So I guess the question would be “would humans do the same thing if someone literally writes obvious jokes on the internet?”
lol
That’s how we ended up with modern day anti-vaxxers but at least with humans you can strangle the dude responsible. LLMs function like modern idols that the makers use to get away with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bohannon#Intentionally_misleading_chocolate_study
Yes, people would exactly do the same, because nobody reads anything but the headline of a paper. Even journalists don’t.
AI didn’t invent the problem, but it put the problem on steroids.
Not sure what point your making here, I wouldn’t expect most journalists to be great at reading the details of papers like this…