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>> LLM-generated citations might look legitimate, but the content of the citations might be fabricated. Friendy reminder that the entire output from an LLM is
by ludicrousdispla 1y ago
>> LLM-generated citations might look legitimate, but the content of the citations might be fabricated.
Friendy reminder that the entire output from an LLM is fabricated.
- amelius 1y agoFabricate is a word with ambiguous meaning. It can mean both "make up", but also simply "produce".
- dwayne_dibley 1y agoI fabricated this reply out of my brain.
- ktallett 1y agoI think in this situation both meanings are needing to be used. It produced made up content.
- xg15 1y agoTechnically yes, but not all of it has lost grounding with reality?
- mapleoin 1y agoYou could say that about Alice in Wonderland.
- bryanrasmussen 1y agoprobably a better word here would be fabulated. on edit: that is to say the content of the citations might be fabulated, while the rest is merely fabricated.
- leereeves 1y agoI didn't realize "fabulated" was a word. TIL, thank you. But in this case it doesn't sound like the right word; it means: "To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables." I think "confabulated" is more appropriate: "To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts."
- bryanrasmussen 1y agothere are of course a number of related words from the same roots, but whereas fabulate does have a connection to fantasy, since fabulation is something a fabulist or fabulator does, it also has wider applications, as can be easily seen in confabulate as the con prefix means "With" or "together" so Confabulation is essentially "with fabulation" That said I guess the version of fabulation I was using is pretty antiquated, probably due to my reading too much 19th century fiction where describing a passel of lies as a pure fabulation would be something people would do on the regular.