[unklefolk]

When educating the general public about the risks and limitation of LLMs, I think "hallucinating" is a useful term - it is something people can understand and it conveys the idea of LLMs being somewhat random and unreliable in their responses. I'm not sure "confabulating" is so easily understood or accessible.

[snordgren]

Hallucinating also gets the point across that the LLM will sometimes be 100% sensible and 100% confident in its claims, while being 100% wrong in those claims.