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Re:Mirages: On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems by williamcotton on Sunday May 28, 2023 @09:36PM (#36109630)
I like the term “synthesize”. Sometimes what the user wants is non-factual. The other terms have a negative connotation when it could very well be an acceptable response for a given request.
Re:Mirages: On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems by Obscurity4340 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @11:19PM (#36110239)
That doesn't really convey the non-factuality or "correctness" of the answer relative to the context and expected output. Every answer is in some sense "synthesized" so its not really a meaningful way to distinguish output. Confabulation seems to me to be the least-problematic way of describing it.