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I've never been opposed to the word "hallucinating" for describing how AI makes mistakes ... until now.

I just talked to someone who thought AI hallucinations would be obvious because it would be obvious if you talked to a *person* who was hallucinating.

In other words, they equated "hallucination" with "sounds wacko" and accepted AI output as true because it sounded level headed.

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Mignon Fogarty · 4w
The word "hallucination" isn't going away — it's a widely used industry term — but we need to explain it better for beginners: "Hallucination" is just a fancy word for "confidently makes mistakes": "Remember: AI hallucinates, and you need to confirm all facts" should be something like "Remembe...