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Can we swap out the word "hallucinations" for the word "bullshit"?
I think all AI/LLM stuf should be prefaced as "someone down the pub said..."
So, "someone down the pub said you can eat rocks" or, "someone down the pub said you should put glue on your pizza".
Hallucinations are cool, shit like this is worthless.
No, hallucination is a really good term. It can be super confident and seemingly correct but still completely made up.
It is, but it isnt applicable in at least the glue-pizza situation as the probable source comment has been found on reddit.
A better use of the term might be how when you try to get Bing's image creator to make "Battletech" art, you just mostly get really obvious Warhammer 40k Space Marines and occasionally Iron Maiden album art.
That's not hallucinations (in particular), that's concept bleed. Try the following:
...and hear them answer "milk". "White, cold, drink, cow" are all wired to "milk" in our heads logic comes later. It's quite a bit harder to trick humans with this than AIs because we do have the capacity to double-check but if you simply want to bend an answer, not have it be completely nonsensical, it's quite easy.
Also your 40k or Iron Maiden result might very well still be Battletech. E.g. when it comes to image composition. Another explanation would be low resolution in the prompt encoding, that'd be similar to boomers calling your PS5 a Nintendo. Most likely though it has only seen two or three Battletech images (face it, it's not that popular in comparison) and thought "eh looks like a Nintendo that's where I'll store it", Humans and current-gen AI are different in principle in that regard as we can come up with encoding strategies, they can't. Something something T3 systems and need for exponential amounts of data.