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>as it seems to anthropomorphize LLM in a way "hallucinate" does the same thing, fwiw

• krapp 2y ago
  It seems impossible to come up with language to describe why LLMs are both convincing and unreliable ("hallucinate","confabulate","bullshit) or why the ability to converse in natural language does not denote intelligent cognition ("stochastic parrot") without anthropomorphizing them to a degree, given that these things are designed to anthropomorphize themselves.
  • burner_fyllms 2y ago
    Yes true but saying "displaying the inherent flaws in the design that make them unsuitable for serious purposes" every time gets tedious.
• vundercind 2y ago
  “Hallucinate” connotes consciousness and self to me. Bullshit does not. Markov chain text generators bullshit, they don’t hallucinate. I’m not aware of anything in LLM tech that warrants implying any sort of awareness, understanding, or consciousness. Not even close.