#confabulations — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/117129402242733862
"AI/LLMs don’t actually hallucinate. They confabulate. This is also called “making shit up”" 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
RE: LLMs, I have *always* refused to anthropomorphise LLMs stating they hallucinate. No, they don't. They confabulate, which is a different thing altogether.
Here👇🏻 is @mcnado with a lovely explainer in just two simple toots 👌🏻😎
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ChatGPT is bullshit
A whitepaper on how LLMs make things up and how we should classify their output
#chatgpt #llms #bullshit #confabulations #hallucinations #reading #language
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf
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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes - New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone buil... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/ai-coding-assistants-chase-phantoms-destroy-real-user-data/ #largelanguagemodels #aidevelopmenttools #aiconfabulation #aihallucination #machinelearning #confabulations #aidevelopment #aiassistants #generativeai #multimodalai #datascience #jasonlemkin #programming #aibehavior #aifailures #ai
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When #confabulations of #LLMs lead to #hallucinations in people, causing actual harm 😱:
“They Asked An A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.VBY-.s76GQpFar8r4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare).
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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books - On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published an advertorial su... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-times-prints-summer-reading-list-full-of-fake-books/ #chicagosun-times #machinelearning #confabulations #biz #ai
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AI search engines give incorrect answers at an alarming 60% rate, study says - A new study from Columbia Journalism Review's Tow Center for Digital Journ... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/ #aiconfabulations #aihallucinations #microsoftcopilot #machinelearning #confabulations #deepseeksearch #googlegemini #perplexity #microsoft #aisearch #deepseek #chatgpt #biz #google #openai #grok3 #grok #xai #ai
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Perplexity will show live US election results despite AI accuracy warnings - On Friday, Perplexity launched an election information hub that relies on ... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/perplexity-will-show-live-us-election-results-despite-ai-accuracy-warnings/ #largelanguagemodels #aihallucinations #machinelearning #confabulations #2024election #googlegemini #perplexity #anthropic #elections #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz #claude #google #openai #ai