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.
When Tesla says their car is self driving, people trust them to self drive. Yes, you can blame the user for believing, but that's exactly what they were promised.
> Why didn't the lawyer who used ChatGPT to draft legal briefs verify the case citations before presenting them to a judge? Why are developers raising issues on projects like cURL using LLMs, but not verifying the generated code before pushing a Pull Request? Why are students using AI to write their essays, yet submitting the result without a single read-through? They are all using LLMs as their time-saving strategy. [0]
It's not laziness, its the feature we were promised. We can't keep saying everyone is holding it wrong.