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Humans can hallucinate up some API they want to call in the same way that LLMs can, but you don't call all human mistakes hallucinations; classifying everything
by dzaima 2y ago
Humans can hallucinate up some API they want to call in the same way that LLMs can, but you don't call all human mistakes hallucinations; classifying everything LLMs do wrong as hallucinations would seem rather pointless to me.
- ForTheKidz 2y agoMaybe we should stop referring to undesired output (confabulation? Bullshit? Making stuff up? Creativity?) as some kind of input delusion. Hallucination is already a meaningful word and this is just gibberish in that context. As best I can tell, the only reason this term stuck is because early image generation looked super trippy.
- thylacine222 2y agoAnalogizing this to human hallucination is silly. In the instance you're talking about, the human isn't hallucinating, they're lying.
- dzaima 2y agoI definitely wouldn't say I'm lying (...to.. myself? what? or perhaps others for a quick untested response in a chatroom or something) whenever I write some code and it turns out that I misremembered the name of an API. "Hallucination" for that might be over-dramatic but at least it it's a somewhat sensible description.