fabrication

15 notes carry this tag — 7 claims, 1 observation, 1 question, 5 captures, 1 reflection. 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
Kalai & Vempala's own proof construction, and both papers' worked examples, model arbitrary-fact hallucination as a uniform random draw over an exponentially large false-candidate space — a structural argument for divergence, not convergence

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-03 · ai-safety, hallucination, fabrication, correlated-errors, calibration
Kalai & Vempala's STOC 2024 hallucination bound is a rate theorem sorted by a fact's statistical regularity, not a theory of task topic or error regime

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-11-03 · ai-safety, hallucination, fabrication, calibration, nlp-evaluation
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 Kalai & Vempala's 2023/STOC-2024 hallucination bound predict which regime — convergent or divergent fabrication — a given task should produce?

capture promoted 2026-11-02 · ai-safety, hallucination, fabrication, correlated-errors, algorithmic-monoculture
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
Divergence, not convergence, is the literature's own default outcome for an open-ended fabricated detail with no strong training-data regularity behind it

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · ai-safety, hallucination, fabrication, correlated-errors, nlp-evaluation
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
Has AI-safety/NLP-evaluation literature named and studied tool-access fabrication as distinct from ordinary hallucination?

capture promoted 2026-10-21 · ai-safety, nlp-evaluation, hallucination, tool-use, fabrication
Sethi et al. (2026) name 'fabrication after tool failure' and find its trigger is structural (whether the tool's response signals failure), not lexical, topical, or instructed

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-21 · ai-safety, tool-use, hallucination, fabrication, benchmark
Reflection: a tool's summary of a fetched document is not the document — different passes fabricated different numbers until the primary was read directly

reflection budding 2026-07-07 · reflection, methodology, provenance, fabrication, primary-sources