• psud@aussie.zone
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    13 hours ago

    LLMs can’t cite. They don’t know what a citation is other than a collection of text of a specific style

    You’d be lucky if the number of references equalled the number of referenced items even if you were lucky enough to get real sources out of an LLM

    If the student is clever enough to remove the trap reference, the fact that the other references won’t be in the University library should be enough to sink the paper

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      9 hours ago

      LLMs can’t cite. They don’t know what a citation is other than a collection of text of a specific style

      LLMs can cite. It’s called Retrival-Augmented Generation. Basically LLM that can do Information Retrival, which is just academic term for search engines.

      You’d be lucky if the number of references equalled the number of referenced items even if you were lucky enough to get real sources out of an LLM

      You can just print retrival logs into references. Well, kinda stretching definition of “just”.

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      12 hours ago

      They can. There was that court case where the cases cited were made up by chatgpt. Upon investigation it was discovered it was all hallucinated by chatgpt and the lawyer got into deep crap