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A Scanning Error Created a Fake Science Term–Now AI Won't Let It Die
- Terr_ 2y ago> The digital fossils are “nearly impossible to remove from our knowledge repositories,” according to a team of AI researchers who traced the curious case of “vegetative electron microscopy,” as noted in The Conversation. I predict LLMs are going to be the leaded-gasoline of technology: A convenient and well-marketed "solution" to a problem that will end up harming generations. Cases like this are relatively innocuous canaries in the coal mine, and the real damage is going to be both serious and statistical, like millions of people wrongly turned down for a job or loan because their names were tied through ethnicity to a phrase once said by a cartoon villain.