• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    If a human does not know an answer to a question, yet they make some shit up instead of saying “I don’t know”, what would you call that?

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      22 days ago

      that’s a lie. They knowingly made something up. The AI doesn’t know what it’s saying so it’s not lying. “Hallucinating” isn’t a perfect word but it’s much more accurate than “lying.”

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        22 days ago

        This is what I’ve been calling it. Not as a pejorative term, just descriptive. It has no concept of truth or not-truth, it just tells good-sounding stories. It’s just bullshitting. It’s a bullshit engine.