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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by solid_fuel on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:07PM (#46804304)
> True, but no more true than it is if you replace the antecedent with "people".

Incorrect. People are capable of learning by observation, introspection, and reasoning. LLMs can only be trained by rote example.

Hallucinations are, in fact, an unavoidable property of the technology - something which is not true for people. [0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:27PM (#46804487)
What you (and the authors) call "hallucination," other people call "imagination."

Also, you don't know very many people, including yourself, if you think that confabulation and self-deception aren't integral parts of our core psychological makeup. LLMs work so well because they inherit not just our logical thinking patterns, but our faults and fallacies.

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by blibble on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:56PM (#46804719)
what I call it is "buggy garbage"

it's not a person, it doesn't hallucinate or have imagination

it's simply unreliable software, riddled with bugs

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by CamperBob2 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:03AM (#46806011)
(Shrug) Perhaps other sites beckon.
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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:32PM (#46804519)
The suggestion that hallucinations are avoidable in humans is quite a bold claim.
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