@Sacha@dice.camp
Zone Tripper. Interested in the whereabouts of the Little Man.
"We invented a machine that thinks!"
"It's not thinking..."
"Technically true, but it can CREATE new content out of thin air."
"It steals everything it spits out by scraping the internet..."
"Okay, got me there, but think of the information access; now everyone with a phone has their own research assistant and the Library of Alexandria!"
"The machine spits out wrong answers; like every time."
"Look, fuck you, we own everything and you're buying it."
The choice of the term “hallucination” to describe what is happening with these language models is fundamentally misleading, and feels calculated to obscure their probabilistic nature.
Characterizing the fabricated output as “hallucination” means, by implication, that correct output is “knowledge”—that the incorrect results are aberrations, not the result of the exact same blind processes that sometimes produce factually sound results.
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