> How sure are you that humans don’t also “simply produce plausible-sounding text”? I'm not, and I didn't say I was. Nothing in my comment is downplaying the

> How sure are you that humans don’t also “simply produce plausible-sounding text”? I'm not, and I didn't say I was. Nothing in my comment is downplaying the success and utility of LLMs. Nothing in my comment is suggesting that they won't get better or even that they won't get better than us humans. It is strictly an observation that these two things that we call different names—hallucinations and alignment—are actually equivalent and can each be expressed in terms of the other. A hallucination is a specific kind of misalignment, nothing more.