[namaria]

> A challenge is that it’s not easy to limit hallucinations without also limiting imagination and synthesis.

> In humans.

True, but distinguishing reality from imagination is a cornerstone of mental health. And it's becoming apparent that the average person will take the confident spurious affirmations of LLMs as facts, which should call their mental health into question.

[zmgsabst]

Misremembering facts isn’t a negative mental health event, yet is an example of imagination rather than recall — similar to LLMs hallucinating.

Humans imagine events all the time, without the ability to know that happened. Part of why eye-witness testimony is so unreliable.