Strawberries

I bought some strawberries at the farmers’ market this weekend, and ate some of them, together with sandwiches, for lunch today. I’m not a great enthusiast for strawberries, but these were good, and from the farmers’ market, not mass produced.

AI Hallucinations

The Patent Office’s Science and Technology Information Center is giving presentations on AI Hallucinations in Non-Patent Literature this week. I joined in listening to today’s one o’clock session; the lady from STIC had some worthwhile things to say about how bogus citations can be brought into existence, and how to be reasonably confident that something is for real.

She also had a memorable quote from someone named Melissa Bond: “It’s finally happened — Google Scholar has asked me to confirm the addition of a completely fabricated citation to my profile. Not only this, the made up citation has been cited 108 times already?!”

The truth is out there. Unfortunately, so are a multitude of lies and blunders.