Can we trust AI? | READER COMMENTARY

Recently, there have been reports of not only a MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) report from the Department of Health and Human Services that had artificial intelligence “formatting errors” but reports of AI-generated student papers that have citation errors. The Naval Postgraduate School Citation Guide states, “Generative AI tools can fabricate citations to sources that do not exist” and “create plausible-sounding statements that may not be true or may be biased.” We have been reading about using AI to, for example, find a cure for alzheimer’s disease. How could we trust information about important subjects when the statements in such a report may not be true and/or the citations are to sources that may not exist?

If AI has all the information in the world to draw from, why is it making up citations and fabricating “plausible-sounding statements?” I don’t get it.

— Denise Lutz, White Marsh

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