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AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian (amp.theguardian.com)

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Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

AI bots don't 'hallucinate' they just make shit up as they go along mixed with some stuff that they found in google, and tell it in a confident manner so that it looks like they know what they are talking about.

The technical term for that is "hallucinate" though, like it or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)