Four years since Galactica: remembering Meta's infamous AI demo

rosstaylor90 · x · 2026-11-16

rosstaylor90 marks four years since Meta's Galactica, the science-summarizing demo pulled after three days for generating plausible but fabricated citations — a landmark AI failure and cautionary tale about LLM hallucination.

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