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I think “malfunctioning” is the correct term you are looking for. Lying and Bullshitting and Hallucinating anthropomorphises the software. It is simply not func

• danaris 3y ago
  "Malfunctioning" isn't really accurate, either—because the common usage of that term isn't "not functioning as advertised", not in this world where salespeople will say literally anything to get someone to buy their product. It's "not functioning as designed". "Hallucinations" are 100% an LLM functioning as designed. They are every bit as valid as any other output. LLMs have no concept of truth, no model of the world, no way even in theory to determine the validity of any particular statement they output. The problem isn't the term "hallucinations", so much as it is the idea that anything they produce is not a hallucination.