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by leobg 1179 days ago
Ha! Totally agree. Used it in my emails to OpenAI in the early days of GPT-3, hoping they’d adapt the term. I knew it from psychology, where it refers to people giving rational explanations for something that isn’t there (specifically in split brain patients).

I guess “hallucinate” stuck because it works across all disciplines: text, audio, vision…