When I recently summarized an article that claimed that Large Language Models (LLM) are “bullshit”, I got a lot of strong reactions offline and online about that term, and a comment recommending the article “Beware of botshit: how to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots” (Thanks, Ian!). In that article, Hannigan, McCarthy and Spicer (2024) suggest using the term “botshit” to describe what can happen when users uncritically use the output of LLMs, and I spent the better part of a Baltic Sea crossing today enjoying that article.
Currently reading about “botshit”, and how to avoid it (Hannigan, McCarthy, Spicer; 2024)
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