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Re:GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades by H8crilA on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @11:45AM (#45581428)
I also hate the term "hallucination", but for a different reason. A hallucination is a confusion of internal stimulus as an external input. The models simply make errors, have bad memory, are overconfident, are sampling from a fantasy world, or straight up lie; often at rates that are not dissimilar from humans. For models to truly hallucinate, develop delusions and all that good schizophrenia stuff we would need to have a truly recurrent structure that has enough time to go through something similar to the prodrome, and build up distortions and ideas.

TL;DR: being wrong, even very wrong != hallucination

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