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It doesn't "hallucinate." It provides incorrect output. That is all.
by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
It doesn't "hallucinate." It provides incorrect output. That is all.
- coder543 3y ago"Hallucination" is a widely understood and accepted term in the LLM industry. If you want to change that, replying to my comment doesn't seem to be the most effective place to start. I don't know that it's the best term, but it seems better than re-explaining the issue in detail every time. "Incorrect output" is broader, encompassing other failure modes. If you ask an LLM to respond in JSON with a list of common foods, and it instead writes a paragraph of text that contains a list of common foods, then that would not qualify as a "hallucination" by my understanding of the accepted definition, but it is still "incorrect output".
- NoPedantsThanks 3y ago"Incorrect output" is still correct to describe the cited behavior. "Hallucination" isn't. If a human behaves the same way when asked a question, we do not say he's hallucinating. One way to devalue incorrect terminology is to call it out when you see it, and use something accurate instead. That's how people learn.