Post #784847
2026-03-26 13:16 UTC
A fresh problem with #AI is what might be called Artificial Gullibility.
According to a BlueSky poster, an academic who was ruled guilty of plagiarism has waged an extensive astroturfing campaign to rewrite the record. The goal was probably to game conventional search engines, but the texts have now been ingested by Google's AI. Google's "AI Overview” presents her (apparently false) version of events, backing it with the supposed authority of Google and “AI”.
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https://bsky.app/profile/laurenginsberg.bsky.social/post/3mhnxv2swok2g
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-03-26 13:23
Whatever the hypesters may tell you, LLMs do NOT reason. Given two conflicting versions of a story, they’ll go for the one that is repeated more often. The sequence of tokens representing a false narrative is – if the astroturfers have done their job right – statistically more probable than the sequence representing a factual account, so it's the false narrative that will get coded into the model and trotted out on demand. 2/
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@agremon@mastodon.gal 2026-03-26 18:18
@angusm A 'new' true!