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by sandworm101 716 days ago
Hallucination is emergent. It cannot be found as a thing inside the AI systems. It is a phenomena that only exists when the output is evaluated. That makes it an accurate description. A human who has hallucinated something is not lying when they speak of something that never actually happened, nor are they making any sort of mistake in their recollection. Similarly, an AI that is hallucinating isn't doing anything incorrect and doesn't have any motivation. The hallucinated data emerges just as any other output, only to evaluated by outsiders as incorrect.