Could you try to put a couple sentences down on how ADHD is an inapt metaphor for failure modes in this case?
It's lazy to claim something is wrong without offering a useful point as to how it's wrong. I trust in your ability to summarize.
The reply to that comment also has some information I feel is helpful to show the breakdown here. It mentions that lack of attention presents in only 15-20% of cases. This isn't ADHD, it is something new, the fundamental underpinnings do not relate, and so the analogy/metaphor does not facilitate a better understanding of the situation.
On the contrary, it makes LLM "attention" out to be something entirely different from what it actually is. Without attention, models don't become easily distracted. They are easily distracted regardless. Without attention, LLMs primarily fail to disambiguate between different meanings of identical words, they fail to take context of the sentence structure into account when assigning meaning.
I hopefully don't have to dive into psychological and chemical specifics of ADHD to have demonstrated that this is fundamentally just not at all what ADHD is. Again, there is no underlying harmony between this mechanism and how ADHD affects human attention in 15-20% of cases, and there is no analogy.
The only similarity is that they both use the word "attention". If they'd used a different label, we wouldn't even be having this conversation right now.
It is ill-named and thus one often encounters comments such as yours in the real world, which while not meant to be negative, can be marginalizing to those with ADHD who see their disorder as misunderstood and the term misused much like people who say "I'm depressed" or "They're acting schizo again".
LLMs do not have dopamine pathways and therefore we should avoid comparing them to human-specific brain disorders, or marginalizing ADHD folk by trivializing the disorder or spreading misinformation about the presentation of ADHD. LLM hallucination does not "look a lot like ADD", that's such a vague and unsupported claim. Furthermore, "lacking attention" doesn't even make sense with respect to attention models. The "attention" in ADHD and "attention" in transformers share a semantic basis but are two very different phenomena.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.giv/books/NBK441838/
It is not “a dopaminergic disorder” any more than many other neuropsychiatric disorders. Nothing much happens in CNS without some level of modulation by dopaminergic receptors, and to the best of my knowledge variants in these receptors are not known to contribute strongly to ADHD (I just confirmed by reviewed the GWAS Catalog: ebi.ac.uk/gwas/efotraits/EFI_oo3888 ).
Furthermoe lack of attention is considered an important facet of ADHD—-common to about 15-20% of cases.
Humans tend to think in terms of metaphors. Similes and metaphors are crucial in learning and thinking. And yes, sometimes problematic.
Explaining what is wrong with a particular metaphor can help.