Mastodawn

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world.

In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.

Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error.

Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

@Catvalente I think a more correct expression would be “pulling stuff out of its ass, if it had one” or “making shit up”.

Omg we've finally found the ass-key!

> In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.

The reason for using "error" and "fail rate" is that it doesn't anthropomorphize the AI.