Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools.

Ars Technica
ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up

New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.

Ars Technica

ChatGPT is bullshit

A whitepaper on how LLMs make things up and how we should classify their output

#chatgpt #llms #bullshit #confabulations #hallucinations #reading #language

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

Ars Technica
Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.

Ars Technica
They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

The New York Times
Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books https://arstechni.ca/CvFS #ChicagoSun-Times #machinelearning #confabulations #Biz&IT #AI
Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

Reading list in advertorial supplement contains 66% made up books with real author names.

Ars Technica

“He notes that a number of subjects living with right-hemisphere damage will attempt obsessively to produce rationalizations of their disrupted perceptions — “#confabulations.” …As #McGilchrist shows, it is this sort of fatal skewing of perception, which misreads the environment we inhabit, that sets us out on our self-destructive path.”

Source: Rowan Williams, “A Brain of Two Minds” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-brain-of-two-minds-on-iain-mcgilchrists-the-matter-with-things/

Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books