Post #4215030

LLMs are quickly eroding the concept of truth. I’m sure that more known people have had to refute claims about them for a while but now it happened to me as well. A researcher from a respectable university contacted me asking for an interview regarding “my position” on a particular topic. The issue: the cited position is the exact opposite of what I’ve always said, and I’m pretty sure that there are zero online sources confirming it to be mine. But whichever LLM they’ve consulted constructed a bullshit controversy where there never was one. I can refute it this one time of course, and I assume that no such claims will make it into their final publication. But the tendency to rely on LLM-generated “information” is there, even in academia. And once they publish unverified bullshit it becomes “the truth” that LLMs will prioritize in their training and other people will refer to as proof that LLM claims are correct. This is going to be really bad.