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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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Lost_My_Mind Feb 16

AI does not lie.

Last year AI claimed “bleach” is a popular pizza topping. Nobody claimed this as their own work. It’s just what a chatbot said.

Are you saying AI didn’t lie? Is bleach a popular pizza topping?

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Ulu-Mulu-no-die

To be able to lie, you need to know what truth is. AI doesn’t know that, these tools don’t have the concept of right vs wrong nor truth vs lie.

What they do is assemble words based on statistical patterns of languages.

“bleach is a popular pizza topping”, from the “perspective” of AI, is just a sequence of words that works in the English language, it has no meaning to them.

Being designed to create language patterns in a statistical way is the reason why they hallucinate, but you can’t call those “lies” because AI tools have no such concept.