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
while it's not this at stake at all, it's more. they do a full plenty shit of errors, wherever it comes from in the process, because they're not sentient:
e. g. https://pouet.chapril.org/@johnrogers.[email protected]/116375460992563788
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