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> A challenge is that it’s not easy to limit hallucinations without also limiting imagination and synthesis. > In humans. True, but distinguishing reality fro
by namaria 2y ago
> A challenge is that it’s not easy to limit hallucinations without also limiting imagination and synthesis.
> In humans.
True, but distinguishing reality from imagination is a cornerstone of mental health. And it's becoming apparent that the average person will take the confident spurious affirmations of LLMs as facts, which should call their mental health into question.
- zmgsabst 2y agoMisremembering facts isn’t a negative mental health event, yet is an example of imagination rather than recall — similar to LLMs hallucinating. Humans imagine events all the time, without the ability to know that happened. Part of why eye-witness testimony is so unreliable.