Trying to isolate out “emotional baggage” is not how language works. A term means something and applies somewhere. Generative models do not have the capacity to hallucinate. If you need to apply a human term to a non-human technology that pretends to be human, you might want to use the term “confabulate” because hallucination is a response to stimulus while confabulation is, in simple terms, bullshitting.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Words are redefined all the time. Kilo should mean 1000. It was the international standard definition for 150 years. But now with computers it means 1024.
Confabulation would have been a better choice. But people have chosen hallucinate.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Although I agree with you, you chose a poor example.
Kilo doesn’t mean 1024, that’s kibi. Many of us in tech differentiate because it’s important.