On Bullshit: Difference between revisions

Frankfurt's concept of bullshit has been taken up as a description of the behavior of [[large language model|large language model (LLM)]]-based [[Chatbot|chatbots]], as being more accurate than "[[Hallucination (artificial intelligence)|hallucination]]" or "[[confabulation]]".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hicks |first=Michael Townsen |last2=Humphries |first2=James |last3=Slater |first3=Joe |date=2024-06-08 |title=ChatGPT is bullshit |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 |journal=Ethics and Information Technology |language=en |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=38 |doi=10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 |issn=1572-8439|doi-access=free }}</ref> However,The researchersuncritical explainuse thatof chatbotsLLM are not bullshiting machines, itoutput is when humans or organizations uncritically use erroneous chatbot-generated content for tasks, that the hallucinatory response becomes transformedsometimes intocalled “botshit”''botshit''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hannigan |first=Timothy R. |last2=McCarthy |first2=Ian P. |last3=Spicer |first3=André |date=2024-09-01 |title=Beware of botshit: How to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0007681324000272 |journal=Business Horizons |series=Special Issue: Written by CHATGPT |volume=67 |issue=5 |pages=471–486 |doi=10.1016/j.bushor.2024.03.001 |issn=0007-6813}}</ref>