Post #2103113

2026-01-15 19:59 UTC

Obviusly. And like hallucinations, it's undesired behavior that proponents off LLMs will need to "fix" (a practical impossibility as far as I'm concerned, like unbaking a cake). But how would _you_ use words to explain the phenomenon? "LLMs hallucinate and lie" is probably the shortest description that most people will be able to grasp.

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@very_well_lost@lemmy.world 2026-01-16 01:44

> But how would _you_ use words to explain the phenomenon? I don't know, I've been struggling to find the right 'sound bite' for it myself. The problem is that all of the simplified explanations encourage people to anthropomorphize these things, which just further fuels the toxic hype cycle. In the end, I'm unsure which does more damage. Is it better to convince people the AI "lies", so they'll stop using it? Or is it better to convince people AI doesn't actually have the capacity to lie so that they'll stop shoveling money onto the datacenter altar like we've just created some bullshit techno-god?

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@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-15 21:04

Except that "hallucinate" is a terrible term. A hallucination is when you perceive something that doesn't exist. What AI is doing is making things up; i.e. lying.

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