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And we use "hallucination" because in the ancient times when generative AI meant image generation models would "hallucinate" extra fingers etc. The behavior of
by nl 2y ago
And we use "hallucination" because in the ancient times when generative AI meant image generation models would "hallucinate" extra fingers etc.
The behavior of text models is similar enough that the wording stuck, and it's not all that bad.
- darby_nine 2y agoThat was a misnomer—hallucination refers to perception, not generation. Completely misled an entire generation of people.
- Raphaellll 2y ago"hallucination" was coined in the context of text generating RNNs. Specifically in this blog post by Karpathy in 2015: https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/