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Can we stop calling these confabulated artifacts, "Hallucinations"? Hallucinating is perceiving things that are not there, imagining and creating things that fe
by outofpaper 10mo ago
Can we stop calling these confabulated artifacts, "Hallucinations"? Hallucinating is perceiving things that are not there, imagining and creating things that feel believable but are not there is confabulation. LLMs are imagination machines. They are Generative Artificial Intelligence not perception models.
- iambateman 10mo agoThe comment you wrote was on a device which should not be called a “phone” either. The word hallucinate is probably just going to grow to mean “anything an AI imagined.”
- keepamovin 10mo agoDude, I agree with you. The first time I saw people derogatively referring to LLM imaginings years ago as "hallucinations" seemingly to discredit them, I felt mad. Becuase it's not right. So, this was my sort-of tongue-in-cheek reappropriation of the abused-term for a positive context. You are permitted to enjoy :) Also: as the sibling comment by iambatemen notes: yes.