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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Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week agoAbsolutely! 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
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 week ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
But the Lancet did not retract the Wakefield paper for 12 years. The Lancet should have been shut down for that.