Personally seen this behavior a few times in real life, often with worrying implications. Generously I’d like to believe these people use extruded text as a place to start thinking from, but in practice is seems to me that they tend to use extruded text as a thought-terminating behavior.
IRL, I find it kind of insulting, especially if I’m talking to people who should know better or if they hand me extruded stuff instead of work they were supposed to do.
Online it’s just sort of harmless reply-guy stuff usually.
Many people simply straight-up believe LLMs to be genie like figures as they are advertised and written about in the “tech” rags. That bums me out sort of in the same way really uncritical religiosity bums me out.
HBU?
GPT will list fake sources. Just in case you aren’t aware. Most of these things will.
My municipality used hallucinated references to justify closing down schools.
For what reason?
It made up some references allegedly saying larger schools were better for learning than smaller schools among other things. But the main reason for restructuring the school structure was to save money.
indeed they literally cannot cite sources accurately by way of their function 😬
I’ll still ask the person shoving Ai slop in my face for a source or artist link just to shame these pathetic attempts to pass along slop and misinformation.
Edit for clarity
You can ask it for whatever you want, it will not provide sources.
Ask the person shoving Ai slop in my face for their source.
Not going to ask a racist pile of linear algebra for a fake source.