This reminds me of a story where an OCR error[1] likely contaminated training data (and the English language) with the term "vegetative electron microscopy". Th

This reminds me of a story where an OCR error[1] likely contaminated training data (and the English language) with the term "vegetative electron microscopy". The article I linked also shows that some journals defended the legitimacy of the terminology. I'm not sure if this class of error really counts as a hallucination, but it nonetheless has similar consequences when people fail to validate model outputs. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858655