[elif]

>"you know what it means, I know what it means"

It is somewhat humorous when humans have ontological objections to the neologisms used to describe a system whose entire function is to relate the meanings of words. It is almost as if the complaint is itself a repressed philosophical rejection of the underlying LLM process, only being wrapped in the apparent misalignment of the term hallucination.

The complaint may as well be a defensive clinging "nuh uh, you can't decide what words mean, only I can"

Perhaps the term "gas lighting" is also an appropriate replacement of "hallucination," one which is not predicated on some form of truthiness standard, but rather THIS neologism focuses on the manipulative expression of the lie.