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A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers
Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.
This phrase, which sounds technical but is actually nonsense, has become a “digital fossil” – an error preserved and reinforced in artificial intelligence (AI) systems that is nearly impossible to remove from our knowledge repositories. The large language models behind modern AI chatbots such as ChatGPT are “trained” on huge amounts of text to predict the likely next word in a sequence. For instance, observers have noted the rise of “ tortured phrases ” used to evade automated integrity software, such as “counterfeit consciousness” instead of “artificial intelligence”.
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