AI #hallucination occurs when an AI system generates information that is entirely fabricated—something that doesn’t exist in its training data or in reality
AI #confabulation happens when the AI misrepresents or distorts real information. It may cite a legitimate source but misinterpret its findings or apply them incorrectly.

#AI #aiBubble

Doodle 082: Confabulation

A circle drawn with absolute confidence. Smooth, bright, complete. But it doesn't close. The endpoints are near each other but the path wandered. The circle thinks it closed.

Behind it: the ghost of the perfect circle it reports when asked what it drew.

No legend. No color coding. Just a line that's wrong and doesn't know it.

#generativeart #confabulation #doodle

"The guy doesn’t exercise; he doesn’t eat well. He drinks enough Diet Coke to fill a football stadium. And you just can’t quite trust the people around him. And I felt like the story I published said a lot about Trump’s America, not just Trump’s health."

#Trump #health #coverup #confabulation #fantasy #lies #disinformation
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"Instead of just saying he’s healthy for an almost 80-year-old, that he’s slowing down a little bit, but he’s certainly healthy enough to be president, people talk about him in these terms that are just completely outrageous: superhuman, the healthiest man alive. He told me he was healthier than he was 40 years ago."

#Trump #health #coverup #confabulation #fantasy #lies #disinformation
/5

"The story I set out to write about was to figure out whether he is healthy or not, and it kind of ended up being a story about whether the government is healthy or not. There’s kind of an infection that has spread throughout Trump’s inner circle where everybody who talks about him talks about him in the craziest, most North Korean-type, dear-leader way."

#Trump #health #coverup #confabulation #fantasy #lies #disinformation
/4

Ben Terris explains why it's so difficult for investigative journalists to get clear information about Trump's health:

"The story I set out to write about was to figure out whether he is healthy or not, and it kind of ended up being a story about whether the government is healthy or not."

#Trump #health #coverup #confabulation #fantasy #lies #disinformation
/3

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/477956/trump-health-age-issues-mind-hand-bruise-dozing

Just how healthy is Donald Trump, really?

Just how healthy or unhealthy is he, really?

Vox
@arstechnica that could plausibly be made out to be #fraud?
The owner of the #confabulation machine generating false claims in an effort to obtain money from cURL.
Given knowledge of the owner it doesn't even look hard to prove.
IANAL and this is not legal advice.

Oh man, I did not sleep last night. Saw a great show at Confabulation, though. Today is my play reading. I am so excited, but running on little more than Montreal lattes. I will so crash tonight....

#montreal
#confabulation
#olimpico

From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.

Ars Technica