This was a fascinating read. Proving that a particular cluster of misinformation originated from an LLM is impossible (and he acknowledges that!) but the circumstantial evidence is pointing that way. I’m really glad the author researched and wrote about this, because it’s a concrete example of “information pollution” in the wild.
I’m reminded of Gell-Mann amnesia: a journalist writes about your area of expertise, and all their mistakes are glaringly obvious—but you turn the page and somehow forget what you just saw, because the remainder of the newspaper seems like a reliable source of truth. No malice required: just an intelligence (artificial or not) who’s trying to generate plausible text.
This was a fascinating read. Proving that a particular cluster of misinformation originated from an LLM is impossible (and he acknowledges that!) but the circumstantial evidence is pointing that way. I’m really glad the author researched and wrote about this, because it’s a concrete example of “information pollution” in the wild.
I’m reminded of Gell-Mann amnesia: a journalist writes about your area of expertise, and all their mistakes are glaringly obvious—but you turn the page and somehow forget what you just saw, because the remainder of the newspaper seems like a reliable source of truth. No malice required: just an intelligence (artificial or not) who’s trying to generate plausible text.
Thank you!
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