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>Bullshitting implies intent to deceive Not in the formal sense. The philosopher Harry Frankfurt famously distinguished bullshitting from lying because a liar
by jhbadger 2y ago
>Bullshitting implies intent to deceive
Not in the formal sense. The philosopher Harry Frankfurt famously distinguished bullshitting from lying because a liar knows the truth and is trying to hide it where a bullshitter is simply trying to sound convincing and may or may not be telling the truth (and may not even know themselves if they are)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
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- randomdata 2y agoIn the current formal sense. It may be true the formal sense in 1986 was different. Words do evolve in meaning over time, but since we're talking about right now... You are right that lying and bullshitting are different. A lie is a false statement with intent. Bullshit is nonsense with intent. A false statement and nonsense may share some similarities, but are ultimately different. Perhaps nonsense is the word we should be applying to LLMs, but often what they say isn't nonsense, even if only by accident, so that doesn't exactly work either. Regardless, it doesn't matter now. As before, "hallucination" has moved beyond analogy and now has its own LLM-specific usage.