It’s weird because there’s no real difference between “hallucinations” and other output. LLMs are prediction engines. Given the text so far, what’s most likely

It’s weird because there’s no real difference between “hallucinations” and other output. LLMs are prediction engines. Given the text so far, what’s most likely to come next? In that context, there’s very little difference between citing a real court case and citing something that sounds like a real court case. The weird thing is that they’re capable of producing any useful output at all.