@draeath @badsamurai @da_667 @GossiTheDog That's what amazes me about the "hallucinated citations" stories. Making bots not hallucinate is certainly not readily feasible, quite possible infeasible in practice; but just checking citations one at a time for existence would have been cutting edge in maybe the 1960s. Why is anyone skipping such trivial cleanup steps when using a known-unreliable tool?

@codinghorror Gordon Gekko, clearly?

@saraislet As a, admittedly reluctant, user of a mammalian nervous system I'm not sure that load bearing capacity is the primary constraint when it comes to plans involving domesticating 400kg of mercury.

There's just something about methylation being the only thing between you and horrible death that inspires a certain amount of caution.

@GossiTheDog I wonder if Nadella really doesn't understand the difference between impunity and consent; or if he's just playing dumb.