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this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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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.