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bitwizelast Sunday at 7:15 AM1 replyview on HN

When improper use of a statistical model generates bogus inferences in generative AI, we call the result a "hallucination"...


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baqlast Sunday at 10:23 AM

It should have been called confabulation, hallucination is not the correct analog, tech bros simply used the first word they thought of and it unfortunately stuck.

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