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.

@ct_bergstrom perfect for writing hollow but good sounding corporate pr flack pieces. Or the trader joe's fearless flyer product descriptions.
@bikerglen @ct_bergstrom Our university is going through a "strategic planning process" so I asked it to write up a strategic plan and guided it along with a few of our institution's general parameters. The output text read like I expect the eventual true product will read... and like every other university strategic plan that I've read before with a few institution-specific spice words. (We could save a lot of money on consultant fees this way.)
@dezene @bikerglen @ct_bergstrom do the fucking work!