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Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/
@404mediaco I know“hallucinated” seems to be the accepted industry term… but that word is far too anthropomorphic (reinforcing hype that the AI marketers do not deserve). Instead, I think “fabricated” would be a much better word to use in the summary below: Machines fabricate things all the time… boxes, cars, etc. Also I like the double meaning in English that connotes fakery/falsehood.
(Ok, thanks for letting me rant… thanks for the excellent journalism 😇)
LB: I am so sad there's no mention Eduoard Siddon's works in this article.
@404mediaco lol this is going well
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