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I've got bad news for you – that term was used in deep learning research well before LLMs came on the scene. It has nothing to do with pundits trying to popularize anything or trying to justify LLMs' shortcomings, it was just a label researchers gave to a phenomenon they were trying to study.

A couple papers that use it in this way prior to LLMs:

- 2021: The Curious Case of Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation (https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06683)

- 2019: Identifying Fluently Inadequate Output in Neural and Statistical Machine Translation (https://aclanthology.org/W19-6623/)