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I think hallucination is better and more accurate at it implies a bit of imagination and buffoonery deceit. I don’t think confabulate matches as well as it imp

I think hallucination is better and more accurate at it implies a bit of imagination and buffoonery deceit. I don’t think confabulate matches as well as it implies confusion or mixture of different ideas. ChatGPT isn’t confused, it’s making things up. It’s trying to bullshit as best it can in hope that what it makes up convinces its user.

singingfish 3y ago
That making things up based on memories of past things is entirely what confabulation is. Bullshitting in the large as it were. I've met quite a few clinical confabulators (people with Korsakov syndrome and the like) and I find the parallels remarkable.