Showing posts with label Hallucination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hallucination. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

The Worse Case Scenario for Gen AI - "Vegetive Electron Microscopy" - Eh?

Spoiler alert .. this post highlights a silly episode in Gen AI (see below, the construction of a bogus term, "vegetive electron microscopy" by AI automated consumption on mass of thousands of documents, because the input process did not expect the document to be formatted in columns): 

Column one is about biology, column two is about physics, by parsing convention the AI sees "a thing/entity" called "vegetive electron microscopy" and pumps it into the LLM and from there is gets used and recommended. Read full article below:  

https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463

Funny after you spot it, serious when you don't!