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Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI (gizmodo.com)
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[โ€“] nulluser@lemmy.world 107 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone knows that AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini can often hallucinate sources.

No, no, apparently not everyone, or this wouldn't be a problem.

[โ€“] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 25 points 15 hours ago

In hindsight, I'm really glad that the first time I ever used an LLM it gave me demonstrably false info. That demolished the veneer of trustworthiness pretty quickly.