> Bullshitting implies knowing that you're lying. Harry Frankfurt had a more useful definition of bullshitting. The essence of it is that while liars care ab

> Bullshitting implies knowing that you're lying. Harry Frankfurt had a more useful definition of bullshitting. The essence of it is that while liars care about the truth and intend to deceive, bullshitters don't know or care about the truth - they want to impress, or avoid looking stupid, or something similar. Hallucination is clearly the wrong word here, as is lying. Bullshitting isn't much better. Confabulation, however, is very close to what LLMs are doing when they make up stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation