My workplace has a spiritual chat group where people can write inspirational messages and quotes. For the last three week I have been adding quotes with pictures of ducks.
The AI generator gave me the following quote.
Norse proverb: "Heill kveðja gerir gott skip" which translates to "A friendly farewell makes a good ship" in English. This proverb emphasizes the importance of positive and harmonious interactions within a group to ensure its success and well being.
I then quickly google the quote and was linked to “Icelanders saga Fljótsdæla” that made me believe the quote was real. So I sent the picture and message.
The admin of the chat like is so much, she wanted to know the background of the quote. I soon discover that the quote isn’t in any Norse or Icelandic sagas.
I have two questions.
Did the AI give me a fake quote?
Is there another good quote I can use instead?
My intent “She likes the back story and uses it in a mid-level meeting we all attend” thank you for any help you can provide.
by Muted-Ad3942
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Ethics and Information Technology: [ChatGPT is bullshit](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5) (Published: 08 June 2024)
>In this paper, we argue against the view that when ChatGPT and the like produce false claims they are lying or even hallucinating, and in favour of the position that **the activity they are engaged in is bullshitting**, in the Frankfurtian sense (Frankfurt, 2002, 2005). Because these programs cannot themselves be concerned with truth, and because they are designed to produce text that looks truth-apt without any actual concern for truth, it seems appropriate to call their outputs bullshit.
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>We will argue that even if ChatGPT is not, itself, a hard bullshitter, it is nonetheless a bullshit machine. The bullshitter is the person using it, since they (i) don’t care about the truth of what it says, (ii) want the reader to believe what the application outputs. On Frankfurt’s view, bullshit is bullshit even if uttered with no intent to bullshit: if something is bullshit to start with, then its repetition “is bullshit as he [or it] repeats it, insofar as it was originated by someone who was unconcerned with whether what he was saying is true or false” (2022, p340).
Not in the [modern online transcription](https://www.snerpa.is/net/isl/fljotsd.htm) that is accessible to everyone. Three instances of “kveðja” so it is fairly easy for anyone to go and check. That however does not preclude a more archaic version of this being in a more archaic translation – but I am not going to do that research.
Most likely the nonsense generator stiched together some nonsense for you. I don’t advice using generative AI to generate random yet associatable words for you, and then go checking if they are real. That sounds like a whole lot of effort to go backwards about researching something you are interested in and the end result is going to be a lot of nonsense. Not misunderstanding which can come from research, but actual nonsense made up on the spot by a random word associator / generator.
MML AI is not knowledge. It’s a pastiche of information at best.