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And a "hallucination" is also an inaccurate humanization of the actual meaning: "statistical relationship that we AI folks don't like."
"Hallucinations" even include accurate data.
It is a trash marketing buzzword.
did you know that there is no sex going on in a Breeder Reactor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
They're analogies to help us communicate ideas.
Nuclear energy companies aren’t trying to make people think that their reactors reproduce.
AI companies are trying to make people think that their software is intelligent.
The context matters.
A breeder reactor is creating something, which is like the outcome of breeding. That name fits.
a hallucination is seeing something that's not there, which also fits.
In AI, a "hallucination" is just as much "there" as a non-"hallucination." It's a way for scientists to stomp their foot and say that the wrong output is the computer's fault and not a natural consequence of how LLMs work.
Hallucinations requires perception. LLMs are just statistical models and do not have perceptions.
It was a cute name early on, now it is used to deflect when the output is just plain wrong.
I don't think anyone is confusing radiation propagation with being alive though.
The issue is, these things "communicate" with us so granting it even more leeway to seem like it's thinking (it's not) is only further muddying how people perceive them