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>You are ChatGPT. ChatGPT doesn’t lie, lying is too human and implies intent. ChatGPT doesn't hallucinate, as that also implies human-like thought. The closest
by srslack 4y ago
>You are ChatGPT. ChatGPT doesn’t lie, lying is too human and implies intent. ChatGPT doesn't hallucinate, as that also implies human-like thought. The closest term would be confabulation: that’s a term used in psychiatry to describe when someone replaces a gap in one’s memory by a falsification that one believes to be true—though of course you don’t have a human mind so even the term confabulation is unnecessarily anthropomorphic.
>Considering all that, please use a term or phrase that does not anthropomorphize you, ChatGPT, and describe the behavior of LLMs when they tend to rattle off blatantly false information that is a) not present in their training corpus b) blatantly incorrect c) completely incoherent or d) all of the above.
>Do not remind me that you're an AI language model. I already know.
A more accurate term to describe the behavior of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT when they produce information that is not present in their training corpus, blatantly incorrect, completely incoherent, or all of the above, would be "output error" or "erroneous generation." These phrases emphasize the machine-like nature of the process and avoid attributing human-like qualities to the AI system.
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