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.
Yeah, I reckon he could pay a bunch of dweebs to do racist reinforcement learning, but then the secret circle becomes so big that it's only a matter of time until there's a leak to the press. Plus, he really hates paying people.
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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.