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Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article

Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article - Lemmy.zip

> A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes. Archived version: https://archive.is/20260215215759/https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/ [https://archive.is/20260215215759/https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/]

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limer Feb 15

AI does not lie. People using untrustworthy AI lie when they promote it as their own work.

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terminatortwo Feb 16

I’m pretty sure it lies

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atrielienz

Saying Generative AI lies is attributing the ability to reason to it. That’s not what it’s doing. It can’t think. It doesn’t “understand”.

So at best it can fabricate information by choosing the statistically best word that comes next based on its training set. That’s why there is a distinction between Generative AI hallucinations and actual lying. Humans lie. They tell untruths because they have a motive to. The Generative AI can’t have a motive.