No one should say that a chatbot "hallucinates". Chatbots do not have minds, they manipulate text. Hallucination requires not only consciousness but the physical brain to falsely perceive a sensation as real. Machine learning models have neither consciousness or physical form, and they never will.

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@annedrewhu what term would you prefer? The other word that comes to mind is bullshitting but I suppose you'd suggest that also requires consciousness?