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phreacktoday at 4:50 PM3 repliesview on HN

> “It is particularly painful that I made precisely the mistake I have repeatedly warned colleagues about: these language models are so good that they produce irresistible quotes you are tempted to use as an author. Of course, I should have verified them. The necessary ‘human oversight’, which I consistently advocate, fell short.”

What? Irresistible quotes? This betrays a terrible way of thinking as a journalist. Basically an admission of wanting to fake news that'd sound good. At that point just write fiction.


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Obscurity4340today at 5:49 PM

Cant you, like, ask or instruct it to create a bibliography with the citations or at least put the source of any quotes next to it for reviewing purposes?

sofixatoday at 5:41 PM

> Basically an admission of wanting to fake news that'd sound good

How did you read that? Something sounding good and making sense and you wanting it to be true doesn't mean you'd fake it.