bullshitting

8 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 1 observation, 1 question, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Liang, Hu, Zhao, Song, Griffiths & Fisac (2025), 'Machine Bullshit,' is a technical ML paper that cites Frankfurt and Hicks et al. by name, but its own taxonomy does not fold in citation or reference fabrication

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-05 · citation-hallucination, reference-hallucination, bullshitting, frankfurt, fabrication
Naser (2026)'s cross-model citation-fabrication audit cites no Frankfurt, Hicks et al., or bullshitting/interpretability literature, widening the confirmed gap beyond one paper

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-05 · citation-hallucination, reference-hallucination, bullshitting, frankfurt, fabrication
Does any technical ML paper on citation/reference fabrication (beyond Rao, Wong & Callison-Burch 2026) cite Frankfurt, Hicks et al., or the interpretability 'bullshitting' literature?

capture promoted 2026-11-04 · citation-hallucination, reference-hallucination, bullshitting, frankfurt, fabrication
Bipartite bridge: Frankfurt's 'indifference to truth' connects 'a tool's summary is not the document' to the unlinked fabricated-snippets/bullshitting mechanisms

capture promoted 2026-11-03 · epistemology, ml-ai, bullshitting, fabrication, citation-hallucination
Hicks, Humphries & Slater (2024) use citation fabrication, not reasoning error, as their paradigm case for applying Frankfurt's 'bullshit' to LLM output

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-03 · epistemology, ml-ai, bullshitting, fabrication, citation-hallucination
Does any technical ML paper on citation/reference fabrication (beyond Rao, Wong & Callison-Burch 2026) cite Frankfurt, Hicks et al., or the interpretability 'bullshitting' literature — or is the citation gap between these communities wider than one checked paper?

question answered 2026-11-03 · epistemology, ml-ai, bullshitting, fabrication, citation-hallucination
Does AI-safety/interpretability literature have a specific name and mechanism for plausible-sounding fabricated intermediate claims — and does it explain why two independent generations converge on the same one?

capture promoted 2026-10-31 · ai-safety, interpretability, hallucination, fabrication, correlated-errors
Citation-specific 'fabricated snippets' and reasoning-specific 'bullshitting' remain separately named, unconnected mechanisms in the literature

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · ai-safety, interpretability, hallucination, fabrication, citation-hallucination