[mordechai9000]

It seems like a useful adaptation of the term to a new usage, but I can understand if your objection is that it promotes anthropomorphizing these types of models. What do you think we should call this kind output, instead of hallucination?

[isidor3]

An author at Ars Technica has been trying to push the term "confabulation" for this

[jebarker]

I think Geoff Hinton made this suggestion first.