The question is, why? Yeah, confabulation might capture the phenomeon better, but no-one knows the word, it is not commonly used, compared to hallucination. And

The question is, why? Yeah, confabulation might capture the phenomeon better, but no-one knows the word, it is not commonly used, compared to hallucination. And that is across languages: Russian: Hallucination: Галлюцинация (Gallyutsinatsiya) Confabulation: Конфабуляция (Konfabulyatsiya) German: Hallucination: Halluzination Confabulation: Konfabulation French: Hallucination: Hallucination Confabulation: Confabulation Spanish: Hallucination: Alucinación Confabulation: Confabulación Italian: Hallucination: Allucinazione Confabulation: Confabulazione Portuguese: Hallucination: Alucinação Confabulation: Confabulação If hallucination isn't a perfect fit, but everyone and their dog know roughly what it indicates in relation to LLMs then that's still better than forcing a word no-one ever uses to describe something slightly different but overall rather similar.