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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/patrickleavy/statuses/115767172874140545">Patrick Leavy (patrickleavy@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 14:41:29 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@patrickleavy" title="patrickleavy@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/229895-48-20240721093402.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Patrick Leavy" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Patrick Leavy</a></section><article><p>"LLMs are structurally indifferent to the truth"</p><p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/</a></p><p>Academic journals being invented, and now those citations contain bullshit <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" rel="tag">#AI</a> citations, giving legitimacy to a string of bullshit papers.... Flooding the zone with shit.</p><p>The cynic in me thinks this could be deliberate - by those who want to make the 'post-truth age' a reality.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academic" rel="tag">#academic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" rel="tag">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truth" rel="tag">#truth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" rel="tag">#bigtech</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5982847#notice-11771420">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-12-23T14:41:29+09:00" title="Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 14:41:29 JST">about 9 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@patrickleavy/115767172874140545" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@patrickleavy/115767172874140545">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5593792">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Patrick Leavy (patrickleavy@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 14:41:29 JST Patrick Leavy
"LLMs are structurally indifferent to the truth"
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
Academic journals being invented, and now those citations contain bullshit #AI citations, giving legitimacy to a string of bullshit papers.... Flooding the zone with shit.
The cynic in me thinks this could be deliberate - by those who want to make the 'post-truth age' a reality.
#LLM #academic #research #truth #bigtech
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