Carl T. BergstromFeb 13, 2023

Meta. OpenAI. Google.

Your AI chatbot is not *hallucinating*.

It's bullshitting.

It's bullshitting, because that's what you designed it to do. You designed it to generate seemingly authoritative text "with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence," i.e., to bullshit.

Show threadRyan MoultonFeb 13, 2023
@ct_bergstrom Disagree. They're designed to mimic what a human would write. If they end up bullshitting it's because the models aren't good enough, not because that's what they're designed to do.
Show threadDieu
@moultano @ct_bergstrom it's also not like Bullshit originated with AI and was unheard of before.
Feb 14, 2023 at 12:15amWeb