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> It's offering support for the claim that LLMs hallucinate 100% of the time, even when their hallucinations happen to be true. Well this makes the term "hallu
by williamcotton 2y ago
> It's offering support for the claim that LLMs hallucinate 100% of the time, even when their hallucinations happen to be true.
Well this makes the term "hallucinate" completely useless for any sort of distinction. The word then becomes nothing more than a disparaging term for an LLM.
- tines 2y agoNot really. It distinguishes LLM output from human output even though they look the same sometimes. The process by which something comes into existence is a valid distinction to make, even if the two processes happen to produce the same thing sometimes.
- williamcotton 2y agoWhy is it a valid distinction to make? For example, does this distinction affect the assessed truthfulness of a signal? Does process affect the artfulness of a painting? “My five year old could draw that?”
- tines 2y agoIt makes sense to do so in the same way that it’s useful to distinguish quantum mechanics from classical mechanics, even if they make the same predictions sometimes.
- williamcotton 2y agoA proposition of any kind of mechanics is what can be true or false. The calculations are not what makes up the truth of a proposition, as you’ve pointed out.