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Carl T. Bergstrom Feb 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.

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Ryan Moulton Feb 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.

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Anca Buit

@moultano @ct_bergstrom They just forgot to include the parts of humans where they strive towards a coherent identity and with having core values. (I mean... some humans really struggle with that as well, but it's also a pretty important 'thing' in humans.)