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The standard meaning of "confabulate" is just "chat". The "memory reproduction error" is psychology jargon. For this reason, I support continued use of "halluci
by mrob 3y ago
The standard meaning of "confabulate" is just "chat". The "memory reproduction error" is psychology jargon. For this reason, I support continued use of "hallucinate" for LLM errors.
- gwd 3y agoRight; so could we compare trying to get people to stop saying "hallucinate" to trying to get people to stop saying "tidal wave"? (My understanding is that people the use the word "tidal wave" to mean the wave around the earth caused by the moon's gravity, which causes the tides; obvs this is quite different than a large wave caused by an earthquake.)