About the same time that LLMs were starting to make the news, I was spending a lot of time with an elderly relative with severe dementia, and was struck by the

About the same time that LLMs were starting to make the news, I was spending a lot of time with an elderly relative with severe dementia, and was struck by the fact that LLMs are doing the same thing she is: the word is "confabulating", meaning to come up with stories and rationalizations to fill in gaps in knowledge and memory.