A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don’t exist.

  • average650@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, I bet he has the skills, he just didn’t use them because he didn’t care, or is overworked, or for whatever reason.

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      1 year ago

      You make a valid point, and there are certainly more considerations than my original reply would lead one to believe. Cheers.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of people don’t understand the limitations/weaknesses of AI. The carelessness was probably more in not actually learning about the tool he was relying on (and just assuming it was reliable information).

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        1 year ago

        It’s like the aeroplane lawyer case some time ago. People treat the computer as an arbiter of truth, and/or think checking is just asking the chatbot “Did you use a real citation for this?”.