ChatGPT is bullshit
A whitepaper on how LLMs make things up and how we should classify their output
#chatgpt #llms #bullshit #confabulations #hallucinations #reading #language
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf
When #confabulations of #LLMs lead to #hallucinations in people, causing actual harm 😱:
“They Asked An A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.VBY-.s76GQpFar8r4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare).
“He notes that a number of subjects living with right-hemisphere damage will attempt obsessively to produce rationalizations of their disrupted perceptions — “#confabulations.” …As #McGilchrist shows, it is this sort of fatal skewing of perception, which misreads the environment we inhabit, that sets us out on our self-destructive path.”
Source: Rowan Williams, “A Brain of Two Minds” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-brain-of-two-minds-on-iain-mcgilchrists-the-matter-with-things/