[elpocko]

Or maybe we could stop anthropomorphizing tech and call the "hallucinations" what they really are: artifacts introduced by lossy compression.

No one is calling the crap that shows up in JPEGs "hallucinations" or "bullshit"; it's commonly accepted side effects of the compression algorithm that makes up shit that isn't there in the original image. Now we're doing the same lossy compression with language and suddenly it's "hallucinations" and "bullshit" because it's so uncanny.

[rchaud]

> Or maybe we could stop anthropomorphizing tech and call the "hallucinations" what they really are: artifacts introduced by lossy compression.

That would be tantamount to removing the anti-gravity boots which these valuations depend on. A pension fund manager would look at the above statement and think, "So it's just a heavily subsidized, energy-intensive buggy software that needs human oversight to deliver value?"

[Dylan16807]

I think that description makes the problem sound a lot smaller than it is. Artifacting in other situations is easy to recognize and ignore.