LLMs Confabulate Not Hallucinate

Re:LLMs Confabulate Not Hallucinate by PoignardAzur on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:41AM (#37776936)

> I hate . . . , My mum works over at the, over on the ward and she said "not another bank statement." I said "it's the second one in two days." And she said "Do you want me to go to the bank for you at lunchtime?" and I went "No, I'll go this time and explain it myself." I tell you what, my bank are awful. They've lost my bank book, you see, and I can't find it anywhere. I belong to the TSB Bank and I'm thinking of changing my bank 'cause they're so awful. They keep, they keep losing . . . [someone comes in to bring some tea] Oh, isn't that nice.

In all seriousness, this feels weirdly similar to listening to Donald Trump.

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Re:LLMs Confabulate Not Hallucinate by YurgenJurgensen on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:40AM (#37778477)

Most transcripts of normal people end up sounding like that. Trump just tweets exactly how he talks, while most people code-switch in text.

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Re:LLMs Confabulate Not Hallucinate by PoignardAzur on Friday October 06, 2023 @09:33AM (#37790565)

I don't know, I've had my nose in (machine-generated) transcripts a lot over the last few weeks, and they didn't give me that feeling, even when they were quite rambly.

I think it's the "jumping from one subject to the next without a broader point" thing that made me think of Donald Trump.

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