Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%]

• Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s my problem: any single word humanizes the tool in my opinion. Iperhaps something like “stochastic debris” comes close but there’s no chance to counter the common force of pop culture, Corp speak a and humanities talent to see humanoid behavior everywhere but each other. :(

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We do enjoy pareidolia, don’t we?

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Paredolia just means seeing patterns that aren’t there, it’s not implicitly human. If you see a dog in the clouds, that’s paredolia.

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      • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Great, when did I say otherwise? Pareidolia is a thing humans do, because we like patterns. Finding patterns is something that has benefited our species, but it is sometimes so strong that we see faces in electrical outlets or the shape of a car’s front profile (for example).

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• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Scam. We’re being sold an autocomplete tool as a search engine.

  Or fraud, since some of the same companies destroyed the functionality of their search engines in order to make the autocomplete look better in comparison.

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• eceforge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No comment on the rest of the thread but I always though “confabulation” was a more accurate word than hallucination for what LLMs tend to do.

  The “signs and symptoms” part of the article really seems oddly familiar when compared to interacting with an LLM sometimes haha.

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  • dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @eceforge @technology I never understood why we don’t just call it “lying”. I mean, I understand why AI companies don’t call it that, but that’s what it is and I don’t think we’re helping ourselves by using a euphemism

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