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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Agree, the term is misleading.

Talking about hallucinations lets us talk about undesired output as a completely different thing than desires output, which implies it can be handled somehow.

The problem it the LLM can only ever output bullshit. Often the bullshit is decent and we call it output, and sometimes the bullshit is wrong and we call it hallucination.

But it's the exact same thing from the LLM. You can't make it detect it or promise not to make it.