Comment on how things become science

magnue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Absolutely! Once false information is out there it can’t be retracted even if the article itself is retracted. Bumblebees can’t fly and vaccines cause autism are good examples of that. The only difference i can imagine is that LLMs have a much larger reach and may spread shit faster

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But the Lancet did not retract the Wakefield paper for 12 years. The Lancet should have been shut down for that.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This. Here’s a comparable case where human journalists did exactly what LLMs are doing now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bohannon#Intentionally…

    The difference is the scale.

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