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There is a famous case from a few years ago where a laywer using ChatGPT accidentally referenced a fictitious case of Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co. [0]

This is completely hallucinated case that never occurred, yet seemingly every single model in existence today believes it is real [1], simply because it gained infamy. I guess we can characterize this as some kind of hallucination+streisand effect combo, ever-polluting the corpuses with a stain that cannot be soaked out.

Is there even a way to cut this pollution out in the future?

[0] https://reason.com/volokh/2023/06/07/lawyer-explains-how-he-...

[1] https://weval.org/analysis/hallucination-probe/966116785e63b...

parent padolsey 1 year ago

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