Comment by singingfish
1 year ago
> LLMs do none of that, they will take whatever you ask and give a reasonable-sounding output that might be anything between brilliant and nonsense.
This is exactly why I’ve been objecting so much to the use of the term “hallucination” and maintain that “confabulation” is accurate. People who have spent enough time with acutelypsychotic people, and people experiencing the effects of long term alcohol related brain damage, and trying to tell computers what to do will understand why.
I don't know that "confabulation" is right either: it has a couple of other meanings beyond "a fabricated memory believed to be true" and, of course, the other issue is that LLMd don't believe anything. They'll backtrack on even correct information if challenged.