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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Why do tech journalists keep using the businesses' language about AI, such as "hallucination", instead of glitching/bugging/breaking?

[–] Danksy 36 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It's not a bug, it's a natural consequence of the methodology. A language model won't always be correct when it doesn't know what it is saying.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

it never knows what it's saying

[–] Danksy 2 points 7 months ago

That was what I was trying to say, I can see that the wording is ambiguous.

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