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by sillyfluke 67 days ago
If you want to call it that, I find the confabulation in LLMs extreme. That level of confabulation would most likely be diagnosed as dementia in humans.[0] Hence, it is considered a bug not a feature in humans as well.

Now imagine a high-skilled software engineer with dementia coding safety-critical software...

[0] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/confabulation-deme...