LLM output isn't 'error' or 'hallucination' because it can only resemble human language. There is no intent. There is nothing being communicated. If LLMs outpu

LLM output isn't 'error' or 'hallucination' because it can only resemble human language. There is no intent. There is nothing being communicated. If LLMs output text, that is always the correct output, because it is programmed to extend a given piece of text by outputting tokens that translate to human readable text. LLMs are only coincidentally correct sometimes when it is given a bit of text to extend and by some clever stopping and waiting for bits of text from a person it can render something that looks like a conversation and it reads like a cogent conversation. That is what they are programmed to do and they do it well. The text being coherent but failing to conform to reality some way or another is just part of how they work. They are not failing, they are working as intended. They don't hallucinate or produce errors, they are merely sometimes coincidentally correct. That's what I meant by my comment. Saying that the LLMs 'hallucinate' or 'are wrong about something' is incorrect. They are not producing errors. They are successfully doing what they were programmed to do. LLMs produce sloppy text that is sometimes coincidentally informative.