[HarHarVeryFunny]

I hadn't heard that, but he was heavily involved in a cancelled project called Galactica that was an LLM for scientific knowledge.

[fooker]

Yeah that stuff generated embarrassingly wrong scientific 'facts' and citations.

That kind of hallucination is somewhat acceptable for something marketed as a chatbot, less so for an assistant helping you with scientific knowledge and research.

[baobabKoodaa]

I thought it was weird at the time how much hate Galactica got for its hallucinations compared to hallucinations of competing models. I get your point and it partially explains things. But it's not a fully satisfying explanation.

[fooker]

I guess another aspect is - being too early is not too different from being wrong.