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 They play these games all of the time with language and it's horrible to watch everyone get sucked in and start using the lingo without knowing the obvious design behind it.
Another example of this is "hyperscaler".
And perhaps more relatedly "agent"...which as Ed Zitron points out...means a chatbot.
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