White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations

It’s all about trust. Which sources of journalism are trustworthy? Is the government administration trustworthy?

You can’t trust an administration that would release a report that cites sources that do not exist. They are either so incompetent that they cannot perform the most basic fact checking possible, or they think we are idiots who can be easily misled.

The error was retracted. This is a clear example for an industry or branch for ensuring accuracy. We could call it the ministry of truth.

I don’t think eloquence or the appearance of intelligence is all that valuable for political leadership these days.

I have entertained a similar notion when imagining the direction industries that make software might go from here. There's a possible future where some sizeable percentage of companies goes extra hard in the direction of "LLMs in, costly programmers out", and end up getting completely smashed when the LLM systems fall apart.

There might even be a couple of months of "gains" as (pointless) metrics go up, and then we might see a proper crash when stuff stops working. Especially for software which businesses rely on, surely there must be a point where they'll say enough of this crap?

Maybe not, too. Capitalism is a very surprising system, capable of absorbing shocks and morphing itself seemingly endlessly.

Are the countries with limited Internet better off in regards to the issues that Internet has created? Maybe, but they are also missing out on the progress of the society because despite the issues it also created a lot of opportunities and changed how we do things in general.

Or maybe they will come on-line with AI after it's been sufficiently improved, and not have wasted time and resources on the early versions. Kind of like countries that never had an installed copper landline phone infrastructure, and then leap-frogged the US by going directly to a mobile infrastructure.

Tolerance for error of an average human is higher than one expects. It’s a cultural problem that’s getting more prominent in the West, because people genuinely start looking down on education. I have over-educated family members who are firm set on “my children don’t have to study hard, I’m sure they’ll smart enough to make big money at the end” idea.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707238 Nobody cares.

Lol nobody is keeping records in this admin.

The only records we have are in Signal chats and we need people to screenshot those.

It would also be helpful to know which models were consulted, and whether they are certified for use in guiding national healthcare policy.

And when you're lying on that scale, automating it with AI is likely an actual productivity gain.

Your causality is wrong. This adminstration has no interest in working with competent people. They're fired huge numbers of them, gone out of their way to make life hell for those left so they quit, and are moving faster than ever imagined possible to drive competent people in non-government jobs away from this country - by deporting them, taking away their visas, attacking them, and more.

This administration is a haven for charalatans and grifters. It's no surprise that they don't have competent people. The goals of competent people are diametrically opposed to what this government wants to do.

Its all a big joke to these people, like asking about medical advice from Groks "not a doctor".

What do you mean by 'cannot be reproduced'?

If I do a simple study where I flip a coin a million times and write down the result, you are unlikely to be able to reproduce the same result.