The term "hallucinating" in this context is just another way we anthropomorphize machines. It is mostly harmless but I see the author's point that it can be mis

The term "hallucinating" in this context is just another way we anthropomorphize machines. It is mostly harmless but I see the author's point that it can be misleading when trying to address specific issues. On the (rare) occasion I find it useful to avoid this very normal tendency I ask myself if it would make sense to apply the same framing to the output of an AI image generator.