[INDOLOGY] AI: the hallucinations of chatGPT and Bard

[Madhav Deshpande]

Glad that I am retired. At Michigan, I did have some occasions when a
student would simply download someone's article, change the name and submit
it as his own work.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I expect many of us are beginning to see student essays that are partly or
> wholly generated by chatGPT and friends.  Reading these is a strange
> experience.  The texts are like a fever-dream of a real essay.  Almost
> correct, often plausible, strangely vague, sometimes insanely wrong and
> sometimes quite fantastical.   They are textual versions of the AI pictures
> "woman laughing alone with salad
> <https://www.eatliver.com/women-laughing-alone-with-salad/>," with two
> rows of teeth and indeterminate numbers of fingers.
>
> One of my favourite features is imagined bibliographies.  We all enjoyed
> the hilarious fake indological bibliography in Lee Siegel's *Love in a
> Dead Language*.  Now, chatGPT is producing its own almost-real
> bibliographical entities.  E.g., from one of my students this term,
>
>    -
>
>    Bryant, E. F., Chakravarty, K. K., & Pal, J. N. (2001). *The
>    excavations at Adamgarh: A Protohistoric site in Central India*.
>    Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
>
> Are you being faced with fake bibliography entries like this?
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
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