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The equal problem with "hallucinate" is that it also has far to many anthropomorhic connotations (a person having creative fun, a person on some form of drugs,
by WorldMaker 2y ago
The equal problem with "hallucinate" is that it also has far to many anthropomorhic connotations (a person having creative fun, a person on some form of drugs, a person in some sort of "sleep state").
So far I'm coming around to the growing use of "slop", originally meant as an alternative to "spam" and to imply spam-like intent, but the great thing about this word choice is that the closest anthropomorphic connotation is to "pig feeding". Pigs can be highly intelligent, of course, but that's not the first image one has when thinking of a pig at a slop trough.
- patapong 2y agoI quite like "confabulation" as a term. From Merriam webster: to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication
- WorldMaker 2y ago"Confabulation" also sounds too anthropomorphic to my tastes. Especially because "fabrication" often implies "intent to" by the actor in question. It's the exact same problem as "bullshit", just the G-rated grandiloquent version. To be fair, human languages were built to anthropomorphize almost everything so finding the right terms here is hard.
- romanobro56 2y ago“WorldMaker” seems to be a little anthropomorphized to me.