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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

AI assistants such as ChatGPT are well-known for creating plausible-sounding errors known as confabulations especially when lacking detailed information on a particular topic.

No, they are hallucinations or bullshit. I won’t accept any other terms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

If it makes you feel better, I've heard good folks like Emily Bender of Stochastic Parrots fame suggest confabulation is a better term. "Hallucination" implies that LLMs have qualia and are accidentally sprinkling falsehoods over a true story. Confabulation better illustrates that it's producing a bullshit milkshake from its training data that can only be correct accidentally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

You’ve swayed me. I’m now down with all three. Thanks for the explaination.