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leonidasrupyesterday at 8:06 PM1 replyview on HN

Using the term "Hallucination" makes it sound less problematic, less impactfull for user.

They should have used the term "error". For example in statistics, there many kinds of errors, discretization error, prediction error, sampling error, ...

https://www.statisticshowto.com/errors-in-statistics/


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lukanyesterday at 8:11 PM

I don't know, but all humans make errors, but if some humans are known to hallucinate, you don't let them do important things unsupervised. So error sounds actually less problematic to me.

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