alt Hacker NewsYikes I subscribed to them last year on the strength of their reporting in a time where it's hard to find good information.
Printing hallucinated quotes is a huge shock to their credibility, AI or not. Their credibility was already building up after one of their long time contributors, a complete troll of a person that was a poison on their forums, went to prison for either pedophilia or soliciting sex from a minor.
Some serious poor character judgement is going on over there. With all their fantastic reporters I hope the editors explain this carefully.
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justinclift • today at 7:14 AM
> Their credibility was already building up ...
Don't you mean diminishing or disappearing instead of building up?
Building up sounds like the exact opposite of what I think you're meaning. ;)
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TBF even journalists who interview people for real and take notes routinely quite them saying things they didn't say. The LLMs make it worse, but it's hardly surprising behaviour from them