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The term “Hallucinate” is a misnomer. Humans can hallucinate, we can get sick and perceive a world which is incongruous with reality. LLMs are just generating

The term “Hallucinate” is a misnomer. Humans can hallucinate, we can get sick and perceive a world which is incongruous with reality. LLMs are just generating tokens. Hallucination perpetuates an unhelpful anthropomorphization of LLMs.

gessha 3y ago
I don’t think the term is that bad here because I haven’t seen a lot of comparisons with human hallucinations. Users see it as a machine artifact.
- intended 3y ago
  It’s like the term “god particle” - it invites comparisons and allusions that do not match reality.