{"id":10145,"date":"2023-07-24T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?p=10145"},"modified":"2023-08-08T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:18:38","slug":"lucubration-or-gaslighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/lucubration-or-gaslighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucubration or Gaslighting?\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Or: The best lies have a nugget of truth in them.\u200b<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Lucubration <\/mark><\/strong>– The action or occupation of intensive study originally by candle or lamplight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gaslighting <\/mark><\/strong>– Psychological abuse in which a person or group causes someone to question their own sanity, memories, or perception.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I was recently having a play with Google Bard<\/a>. Bard, unlike ChatGPT <\/a>has access to live data. It also undergoes live feedback and quality control. I was hoping to see if it would find me any journals with articles on prion research which I’d previously overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: Please show me some recent articles about prion research.
(Because always be polite to our AI overlords, they’ll remember!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Bard: Sure, here are some recent articles about prion research:\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Study Reveals Mechanism for How Disease-Spreading Prions Can Jump from One <\/strong>Species to Another<\/strong> (ScienceDaily, September 12, 2022)\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers Develop New Method to Detect Prions<\/strong> (The Scientist, January 27, 2023)\u200b<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prion Disease Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Mice<\/strong> (Nature Medicine, February 24, 2023)\u200b<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prion Vaccine Shows Promise in Animal Studies<\/strong> (JAMA Neurology, March 24, 2023)<\/mark>\u200b<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

At first glance this all seemed pretty reasonable, then I spotted the “Prion Vaccine Shows Promise in Animal Studies” “article”. What? Wait? How?
We’re not even sure what prions are for and Prion-knockout mice exhibit behavioural abnormalities<\/a> having a vaccine for prion-related diseases seems.. Unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All four journals really exist, but on closer examination, only the first article does. Bard had used its Large Language Model<\/a> magic to just make up a series of titles which sounded plausible. Certainly sounding reasonable for titles you’d expect to find in these journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of months after being gaslit by Bard, an unfortunate lawyer had a similar experience with Bard contemporary, ChatGPT. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t check its working and submitted the invented cases to a judge<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I write this, my colleague has been singing the praises of Claude<\/a>, which just for variety, I shall now go and try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or: The best lies have a nugget of truth in them.\u200b Lucubration – The action or occupation of intensive study originally by candle or lamplight. Gaslighting – Psychological abuse in which a person or group causes someone to question their own sanity, memories, or perception. I was recently having a play with Google Bard. Bard, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,123,632,189],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[507],"class_list":["post-10145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-commentary","category-deep-learning","category-machine-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":507,"user_id":15,"is_guest":0,"slug":"eoin","display_name":"Eoin Malins","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e91a9cf8b77625a1bc34e56f5dc36439a1f61476804b087e5b47554425879210?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10145"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=10145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}