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   Ulrike Franke (rikefranke@bagarrosphere.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 18:53:43 JST Ulrike Franke

   And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

   https://www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/power-without-mandate-the-perils-of-germanys-military-ambition

   And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

   The other sources are hallucinated too.

   #AIisnotresearch

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     es0mhi (es0mhi@tilde.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 21:59:42 JST es0mhi

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     @rikefranke

     The least you could do now is to prompt the AI for writing the article. Show some empathy and wash away its shame! We are all human ;-)

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     Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 23:15:58 JST Kermode

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     • Drew Kadel

     @rikefranke
     No brain to 'hallucinate'. The program functioned as designed.

     Drew Kadel @DrewKadel wrote:

     My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

     "Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it is doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation."

     Calling it 'auto-complete on steroids' is close, but not giving it proper credit.