Classic confabulation is observed with some kinds of alcohol related brain damage where people drink and get malnourished for a period of years. People with th

Classic confabulation is observed with some kinds of alcohol related brain damage where people drink and get malnourished for a period of years. People with these syndromes create quite coherent complex stories which they will not be able to recall subsequently. This is quite different to filling in the blanks for remembered conversations where later on there is an opportunity for error correction. With confabulation there is not as it's tightly bound to memory impairment. So I'm in the camp where LMMs are confabulating - and there's and I personally think the argument that they can be seen as confabulation machines has some validity.