"In this paper, we argue against the view that when ChatGPT and the like produce false claims they are lying or even hallucinating, and in favour of the position that the activity they are engaged in is bullshitting, in the Frankfurtian sense (Frankfurt, 2002, 2005). Because these programs cannot themselves be concerned with truth, and because they are designed to produce text that looks truth-apt without any actual concern for truth, it seems appropriate to call their outputs bullshit."
Not only is this a good reference paper for ChatGPT, it also reinforces the idea that "Bullshit" is indeed a scientific term. Good to know we can continue its use in research papers.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
#Science #Research #ChatGPT #LLM
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