This article is absolutely whitewashing how bad the Galactica project is. On day one, people were using the scientific paper generator to make fake papers and wiki pages with real-looking citations supporting racist, sexist, homophobic, and genocidal ends.

This thing didn’t actually do much aside from hallucinate about the world in a scientific voice. The bot was allegedly supposed to help scientists explore connections between different complex theoretical fields, but it didn’t have a concept of what was real or practical, and the citations were all fake.

What value did they think was going to come from this aside from misinformation? At least ChatGPT could do your homework for you.