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pertymcpert02/19/20251 replyview on HN

I think hallucinate is a good term because when an AI completely makes up facts or APIs etc it doesn't do so as a minor mistake of an otherwise correct reasoning step.


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throwawaymaths02/19/2025

its more like conspiracy theory. when you're picking a token youre kinda like putting a gun to the LLM's head and demanding, "what you got next?"