just spent 5h undoing a conceptual mess: an AI-generated essay with subtly incorrect references (some don't exist at all) that had been subtly mis-"read" by the AI system.

this is further evidence that when using AI systems to do work, humans need to be clear about what the meaning-making part of the work is, and be vigilant about keeping ownership of that part:

just spent 5h undoing a conceptual mess: an AI-generated essay with subtly incorrect references (some don't exist at all) that had been subtly mis-"read" by the AI system.

this is further evidence that when using AI systems to do work, humans need to be clear about what the meaning-making part of the work is, and be vigilant about keeping ownership of that part: https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/ai-meaningmaking

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/salty /fufu

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i instructed it to not make up articles that don't exist or urls that don't exist :-|

agreed, when writing it has to be very specific or they go trigger happy hallucinating