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Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions

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504 points puttycat | 3 comments | 07 Dec 25 13:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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theoldgreybeard ◴[07 Dec 25 15:09 UTC] No.46182214[source]▶
If a carpenter builds a crappy shelf “because” his power tools are not calibrated correctly - that’s a crappy carpenter, not a crappy tool.

If a scientist uses an LLM to write a paper with fabricated citations - that’s a crappy scientist.

AI is not the problem, laziness and negligence is. There needs to be serious social consequences to this kind of thing, otherwise we are tacitly endorsing it.

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CapitalistCartr ◴[07 Dec 25 15:29 UTC] No.46182385[source]▶
I'm an industrial electrician. A lot of poor electrical work is visible only to a fellow electrician, and sometimes only another industrial electrician. Bad technical work requires technical inspectors to criticize. Sometimes highly skilled ones.
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1. barfoure ◴[07 Dec 25 17:10 UTC] No.46183216[source]▶
I’d love to hear some examples of poor electrical work that you’ve come across that’s often missed or not seen.
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2. joshribakoff ◴[07 Dec 25 17:38 UTC] No.46183451[source]▶
I am not an electrician, but when I did projects, I did a lot of research before deciding to hire someone and then I was extremely confused when everyone was proposing doing it slightly differently.

A lot of them proposed ways that seem to violate the code, like running flex tubing beyond the allowed length or amount of turns.

Another example would be people not accounting for needing fireproof covers if they’re installing recessed, lighting in between dwelling in certain cities…

Heck, most people don’t actually even get the permit. They just do the unpermitted work.

3. AstroNutt ◴[07 Dec 25 18:17 UTC] No.46183736[source]▶
A couple had just moved in a house and called me to replace the ceiling fan in the living room. I pulled the flush mount cover down to start unhooking the wire nuts and noticed RG58 (coax cable). Someone had used the center conductor as the hot wire! I ended up running 12/2 Romex from the switch. There was no way in hell I could have hooked it back up the way it was. This is just one example I've come across.