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Re:The AI Hallucination Debate Is Missing the Point by chasing0entropy on Saturday November 29, 2025 @07:36PM (#46092291)
A fundamental concept of basic software design that is mirrored in most widely adopted software: design software to adapt to the user, do not require the user modify their behavior to use the software.

Any argument that the user must "learn" to use what is arguably the world's largest and fastest software implementation is fallacious.

Any sufficiently mature human replacement software should be capable of accepting all varieties of human input.

Re:The AI Hallucination Debate Is Missing the Point by maxtermed on Saturday November 29, 2025 @04:51PM (#46091114)
After a LinkedIn post about AI hallucinations generated 166 comments, I realized: everyone was right, but talking about completely different problems.

This breaks down five perspectives (practitioners, displaced workers, engineers, educators, skeptics) and what each reveals that we're not discussing:

  - The verification paradox (if you can verify it, you could probably do it yourself)
  - Three zones of AI appropriateness (Green/Yellow/Red)  
  - Why AI hallucinations are structurally different from human errors
  - The human capital problem (if AI does junior work, where do seniors come from?)
Re:The AI Hallucination Debate Is Missing the Point by AnimalMuppet on Saturday November 29, 2025 @04:53PM (#46091134)
That's only four things that we're not discussing. Did you miss one?
Re:The AI Hallucination Debate Is Missing the Point by maxtermed on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:07PM (#46091237)
Five perspectives (in parentheses), four key concepts (bulleted). The perspectives reveal the concepts we're missing in the debate.
Re:The AI Hallucination Debate Is Missing the Point by AnimalMuppet on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:47PM (#46091533)
Ah. I thought there was going to be a key concept for each perspective.
Re:The AI Hallucination Debate Is Missing the Point by stevenalowe on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:58PM (#46091616)
5. off-by-one errors