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Re:The plan is to flood Google search with AI garbage by JohnFen on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:49PM (#36777447)
> It doesn't. Hallucination in this context means 'an unfounded or mistaken impression or notion'.

Correct. Which, as near as I can tell, isn't the correct characterization of what's happening with LLMs.

> But there's another side that seems to be terrified that LLMs could be anything resembling intelligent

I certainly have no such fear. I say that only to indicate that my biases are not of that sort.

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Re:The plan is to flood Google search with AI garbage by BoorishBears on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:06AM (#36782015)
The first sentence seems contradicted by the second no? If you don't have that fear then why bother playing around the semantics of "impression or notion"?

Is it an unfounded or mistaken cluster of tokens which resemble an impression or notion then?

At the end of the day it's producing an output which systemically was intended to be accurate, but ended up not being accurate through a mistake in generation: That's a hallucination.

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