> And no, humans are not just as bad as AI at this. I don't know why that meme persists - if humans were just as bad, much less worse, at hallucination and conf

> And no, humans are not just as bad as AI at this. I don't know why that meme persists - if humans were just as bad, much less worse, at hallucination and confabulation as AI at scale we would never have gotten past the stone age as a species. Knowing this would require a counterfactual machine of some sort, thus the fact must be hallucinated into existence, no?