[SirMaster]

Then tell us what we should call these manifestations...

It's say to say stop calling it X, but then what are we supposed to call them?

[PretzelPirate]

A popular term in the LLM space is 'confabulation': https://community.openai.com/t/hallucination-vs-confabulatio...

It fits better than the alternatives I've seen proposed.

[ethanbond]

Malfunctions? Breaking? Errors? Poor reliability?

[SirMaster]

The problem I have with this is it seems too generic.

Shouldn't we try to categorize the types of errors at least somewhat?

[ethanbond]

Sure, and it's probably wise not to pick error categorizations that impute consciousness onto a thing that's 1) almost certainly not conscious, 2) behaves quite similarly to a conscious thing, and 3) might become conscious at some point in the near or distant future

Hallucinations are definitionally features of conscious experience. Pick a different word or make one up!

[SirMaster]

I guess to me hallucination doesn't necessarily imply consciousness.

"an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present"

I guess it depends on exactly how you define "experience" and "perception".

But yeah there are better words than hallucination that are even more generic and do work better.

[otikik]

We should call it Twitter.