Androids Dreaming of Electric Sheep, or It's Hallucinated Turtles All the Way Down

My UCLA colleague John Villasenor pointed out that Googling De Keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (2023) Deepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance yields:

Readers of the blog may recall that De Keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (2023) Deepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance is one of the hallucinated—i.e., nonexistent—articles cited in the AI misinformation expert's Kohls v. Ellison declaration I blogged about Tuesday. But Google's AI Overview seems to think there's a there there. Indeed, perhaps that's in part because I had included the citation in my post; human readers would realize that I gave the citation as an example of something hallucinated, but the AI software might not.

UPDATE 11/25/2024, 11:07 am: The AI Overview doesn't come up for me any more, though it consistently did Saturday, when I captured the screenshot I included above.