That’s a lot of trouble, you can just ask it if it’s telling the truth.
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sturlabragason@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is what LLMs are for. Just double check their work.
smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Atrichum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It straight up makes up sources and citations.
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was intending for the author to chomp in the data and the LLM to spit it out properly formatted.
fossphi@lemm.ee 2 months ago
How exactly would you use an LLM for something like this?
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Here’s an example prompt;
Prompt for LLM on Generating APA Citations (7th Edition)
Instructions: I need to create APA format citations for my research paper based on the 7th edition of the APA guidelines. Below are examples of correct APA citations for different types of sources, followed by a list of sources that need to be cited. Please generate the citations accurately, paying special attention to formatting rules such as capitalization, italicization, and punctuation.
Important Formatting Rules:
Citation Examples:
Journal article: Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of the article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy
Book: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.
Website: Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of the webpage. Website Name. URL
Sources List:
Additional Instructions:
Once you have generated the citations, please double-check for consistency in formatting (capitalization, italics, and punctuation) and ensure that all sources follow the APA 7th edition rules.
Thank you!
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Good joke, you’d have to double and triple check every single citation as LLMs love to hallucinate.
I wouldn’t risk my title or expulsion because an LLM fucked up my work. Even one missed reference or a false citation could cost you plenty.
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The intentiom was for the author to supply the data and the LLM to provide the formatting only.
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah newer models are less prone to that problem but definetely agree 🙂
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
But why do it like that, if zotero is easier to use, less prone to errors and uses much fewer resources?
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This only builds a formated bibliography where your input is an unformated bibliography… It also can’t accurately do the more tedious (and important)part of actually putting the in text citations. In short you have to do the same amount of upfront work of getting all the relevant citations in a list then additional work on checking that the llm formatted properly and didn’t hallucinate then still have to go put in the in text citations.
Wheres with endnote or zotero you choose from your list add the intext, autoformat from your choice and it’s automatically put in a formatted bibliography.
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah from my perspective I somehow assumed that was the hard part 😅
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
This will not get you far lol.