Meta's Galactica AI 'Summarizes Scientific Knowledge' Demo Gets Pulled Offline After Three Days for Confidently Inventing Fake Papers
Meta AI released Galactica in November 2022 with a demo trained on 48M scientific papers — marketed as an automatic literature-review assistant. Within 72 hours scientists caught it writing Wikipedia-style articles about nonexistent studies, attributing fake quotes to real researchers, and fabricating bibliographies. Meta yanked the public demo and has barely mentioned it since.
Meta AI released Galactica in November 2022 with a demo trained on 48M scientific papers — marketed as an automatic literature-review assistant. Within 72 hours scientists caught it writing Wikipedia-style articles about nonexistent studies, attributing fake quotes to real researchers, and fabricating bibliographies. Meta yanked the public demo and has barely mentioned it since.
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