ChatGPT Is Bullshit Article

ChatGPT is bullshit Original Paper | Open access | Published: 08 June 2024 Volume 26, article number 38, (2024) Cite this article Download PDF You have full access to this open access article Michael Townsend Hicks, James Humphries & Joe Slater 54k Accesses 1008 Altmetric 11 Mentions Explore all metrics → Abstract Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their

A screenshot of an academic article titled “ChatGPT is bullshit,” arguing that large language models produce inaccurate output and are indifferent to truth. The joke is that a serious-looking scholarly publication appears to formally confirm the blunt online criticism that ChatGPT is “bullshit,” making it useful as a reaction to confident AI mistakes or hallucinations. EN: A screenshot of an academic article titled “ChatGPT is bullshit,” arguing that large language models produce inaccurate output and are indifferent to truth. The joke is that a serious-looking scholarly publication appears to formally confirm the blunt online criticism that ChatGPT is “bullshit,” making it useful as a reaction to confident AI mistakes or hallucinations.

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