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I take issue with describing hallucinations as lies. They're most certainly not. There is no culpable agent with the ability to determine whether or not they ar
by iandanforth 3y ago
I take issue with describing hallucinations as lies. They're most certainly not. There is no culpable agent with the ability to determine whether or not they are telling the truth. There is no intent, positive or negative, behind the generations.
The generated statements may be inaccurate but they cannot be called lies. To do would be a dangerous level of anthropomorphization in the legal sphere.
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- kayodelycaon 3y agoLying and hallucinations would be accurate with the way people treated computers before “AI” ever existed. Intentional reckless disregard for truth is a form of lying. You don’t have to worry about the legal sphere anthropomorphising software. Software is legally not a person and therefore will not be treated as one by the courts, regardless of how people commonly refer to it.
- tensor 3y agoIf AI were treated like software these court cases would be very clear and not an issue. The answer would be that yes AI can copy content as part of its operation but if a human uses it to reproduce that content exactly for others then it violates copyright law. We've long had precedent with search engines. But despite that, these cases are revisiting the way copyright might work. These cases are not as simple as people like you imply no matter how many times you repeat the utterly pointless and irrelevant fact that computers are not humans.
- iandanforth 3y ago> "You don’t have to worry about the legal sphere anthropomorphising software." This is a lawyer writing about a lawsuit on a law office blog. That's what's worrisome.
- kredd 3y agoPeople also misremember things with no intent, yet they are still considered as lies. I understand AI is not a human, but classifying a hallucination a lie seems reasonable to me.
- logicchains 3y ago>People also misremember things with no intent, yet they are still considered as lies Generally when people remember wrong it's considered a mistake, not a lie. Lies imply an intent to deceive.
- madeofpalk 3y agoI take issues with describing lies as hallucinations. For an LLM they’re no more or less a hallucination than generating something that’s correct. LLMs have no sense for what is correct or not, therefor it cannot tell the truth or lie. It always hallucinates - sometimes those hallucinations match our factual understanding.
- zestyping 3y ago"Hallucination" is also a dangerous level of anthropomorphization. It's sensational; it implies a fanciful level of imagination and visualization that isn't there. "Fabrication" is a much more accurate and neutral word. I wish "hallucination" hadn't taken hold.