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.
LLM’s simply aren’t good enough for all the use cases some people insist they are. They’re powerful tools that have been far too broadly applied and there’s too much money and too many reputations being put on the line to acknowledge the obvious limitations. Frankly I’m sick of it.
I had somebody on HN a few months ago insist to me that because we value art and fiction, LLM’s being wrong when we need them to be correct (in ways that are also not always easy to identify) was desirable. I don’t even know what to do with that kind of logic other than chalk it up as trolling. I don’t want my computer to trick me into false solutions.