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Comment by grey-area

2 days ago

It certainly casts suspicion on the ‘findings’ which may well be hallucinated or subtly wrong.

Because humans totally don't get things wrong or fabricate lies. Even the term "hallucination" is a clumsy way to describe what is happening when an LLM spits out an unsound statement. What you are doing is more akin to a hallucination than what the LLM is doing. Even in the process of criticizing this technology, you cannot help but to anthropomorphize it.

  • * Because humans totally don't get things wrong or fabricate lies.*

    Not in the same way no. Why so trenchant in defending a word generator?

    If you prefer for hallucinate substitute ‘generate plausible but incorrect text’. I don’t think of LLMs as anything approaching human, sorry to disappoint.