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Fallstar@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

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A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

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Fallstar@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.
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    In some cases, it’s people who’ve done the research and written the paper who then use an LLM to give it a final polish. Often, it’s people who are writing in a non-native language.

    Doesn’t make it good or right, but adds some context.

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      Sure, and I’m sympathetic to the baffling difficulties of English, but use Google Translate and ask someone who’s more fluent for help with the final polish (as a single suggestion). Trusting your work, trusting science to an LLM is lunacy.

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        Google translate is using the same approach like an LLM.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation

        So is DeepL

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator

        And before they were using neural network approaches they used statistical approaches, which are subject to the same errors as a result of bad training data.

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          Check the results though. Google translate is far far better at translation than a generic LLM.

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