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Casey Fiesler on why LLMs don't really cite their sources

6 experts · 30 posts · 5d ago
Thomas Dietterich Casey Fiesler Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Prof. Catherine Flick D. Hicks
Casey Fiesler: Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources"…
Casey Fiesler: A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was cons…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 5d ago
Berna Devezer D. Hicks
D. Hicks: You don't have to use AI or even like it. But try to avoid confidently making clearly false statements like "AI can't do web search." They've had web search tools for like two years now.
Berna Devezer: I'd also have expected to see a lot more interest in whether the references were accurate and properly cited, rather than how he got there. Most complaints I've seen are about his use of AI rather …
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2 experts · 2 posts · 5d ago
Berna Devezer D. Hicks
D. Hicks: I see we've decided to move on to conspiracy theories and/or confusing LLM training with social media algorithms
Berna Devezer: And some of these falsehoods and conspiracy theories are being lauded as a principled stance. It's disorienting.
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