I like the term “confabulation”.
Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
fodor@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
You call them hallucinations, the rest of us call them errors. But you don’t want to call them errors because then someone might inconveniently ask you what the error rate is, and you definitely can’t have that.
Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
lime@feddit.nu 4 weeks ago
they’re not errors either, because that implies they’re unintended. hallucinations are the program working as designed. they are more like… consequences.