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The use of that term applied to LLMs has bothered me as well. I would prefer they just call them what they are: incorrect answers.

It is a bit baffling that people so nonchalantly adopt these models as agents of fact when they often fail to produce correct answers.

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I understand that it has become a term of art, but I still dislike talking about generative AI “hallucinating.”

It’s not an apt metaphor; a hallucination is an error in perception, seeing something that isn’t there. That doesn’t apply to LLMs or diffusion models, though.

The process that produces erroneous output is exactly the same as the process that produces correct output; nothing has gone wrong, it’s just that the probabalistically-generated plausible answer was incorrect.

Related, and more essentially, an actual hallucination is an error in PERCEPTION. With AI (including so-called multi-modal systems), there is no one in there to perceive.

Indeed, when we converse with an AI-based product, the only possible hallucination is happening on our side of the keyboard (and reading some people’s AI takes, there’s definitely some hallucinating going on).

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I understand that it has become a term of art, but I still dislike talking about generative AI “hallucinating.”

It’s not an apt metaphor; a hallucination is an error in perception, seeing something that isn’t there. That doesn’t apply to LLMs or diffusion models, though.

The process that produces erroneous output is exactly the same as the process that produces correct output; nothing has gone wrong, it’s just that the probabalistically-generated plausible answer was incorrect.

Related, and more essentially, an actual hallucination is an error in PERCEPTION. With AI (including so-called multi-modal systems), there is no one in there to perceive.

Indeed, when we converse with an AI-based product, the only possible hallucination is happening on our side of the keyboard (and reading some people’s AI takes, there’s definitely some hallucinating going on).

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Canned Parasite, a collection of curious experimental multimedia Avant-garde works.