The author also sees their stats in a paper and a few other sites and assumes ChatGPT put it there? Not a human visiting the fake stats site?
Did I miss the evidence that shows ChatGPT is actually using the fake stats? Serious question.
The author also sees their stats in a paper and a few other sites and assumes ChatGPT put it there? Not a human visiting the fake stats site?
Did I miss the evidence that shows ChatGPT is actually using the fake stats? Serious question.
Even if some LLMs discarded it, only they were the ones returning the results to users. Occam's razor tells me that LLMs cited the website and humans were too lazy to check. That the stats ended up being cited is a lack of scrutiny on both the LLMs and the human that should have reviewed it.
If the end goal of LLMs are autonomous agents, i.e. removing human oversight, then this will be what proliferates on the web.
They found their page being cited in various AI generated slop around the internet, including an acedemic paper, investment research, an Indian publication, etc.