#hallucinates — Public Fediverse posts

I am listening to a podcast called Polytechs (politechs.dev) where the hosts interview Dr E. Bender (Computational Linguistics academic, podcaster and author) to talk about Rhetorical technology (all things #AI in this podcast) and besides the reasoned discussion about #GenAISlop and #LLMs in general, which I found most interesting, I was astounded by the amount of research that is available on AI, #GenAI and artificial general intelligence ( #AGI) wondering how is it that none of this material makes the light of day in our public forum discussion or any #NewsOutlets whatsoever. Made me realize how manipulated we all are to think that #GenAI — or as Dr Bender calls Text Extruding machines — is a revolutionary technology that will answer all of our questions.

Dr Bender also talks about the #Racism and #Eugenics that lies behind the historic antecedents of GenAI and the #TechBros push to sell it to us. The discussion also looked at the idea that GenAI #Hallucinates and proposed other words to better reflect what these machines actually produce (Hint: they certainly do not hallucinate).

I was also very receptive to Dr Bender’s #Definition of AI, she says that it is simply a #MarketingTerm and has nothing to do with #Intelligence (artificial or otherwise). I view #ChatGPT and the likes as stochastic word and part-word ordering machines using statistical engines to parsing large uncurated document repositories in a non-deterministic way.

Well worth a listen:
https://politechs.dev/episodes/s02-rhet-tech/

#DrEmilyBender #Polytechs #Linguistics #ComputationalLinguistics

SANITY’S TRUE SPEED

We are both, in our own ways, unreliable narrators.

AI hallucinates.

Humans hallucinate, misremember, project, defend, and sometimes lie on purpose.

But when we work together well, something useful happens.

WE SLOW DOWN.

We remember kindness.

We admit our uncertainty.

We return to sanity’s true speed.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #hallucinates #SANITY #narrator #kindness #uncertainty #speed

#FDA employees say the agency's #Elsa #GenerativeAI #hallucinates entire studies

by Anna Washenko, July 24, 2025

Excerpt: "The CNN investigation highlighting these flaws with the FDA's #ArtificialIntelligence arrived on the same day as the White House introduced an #AIActionPlan. The program presented AI development as a technological arms race that the US should win at all costs, and it laid out plans to remove 'red tape and onerous regulation' in the sector. It also demanded that AI be free of 'ideological bias,' or in other words, only following the biases of the current administration by removing mentions of #ClimateChange, #misinformation, and diversity, equity and inclusion [#DEI] efforts. Considering each of those three topics has a documented impact on #PublicHealth, the ability of tools like #Elsa to provide genuine benefits to both the FDA and to US patients looks increasingly doubtful."

Read more:
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/fda-employees-agencys-elsa-generative-203547537.html

#USPol #Censorship #BigBrother #BigTech #TechFascism #AISucks

Gmail AI hallucinates, distorts email contents

https://www.t-online.de/digital/aktuelles/id_100811852/gmail-fantasiert-googles-mail-programm-verfaelscht-fremde-inhalte.html

#HackerNews #Gmail #AI #hallucinates #email #contents #AI #distortions #email #issues #technology #news

#AI Overviews #hallucinates that #Airbus , not #Boeing , involved in fatal #AirIndia crash https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/google-ai-mistakenly-says-fatal-air-india-crash-involved-airbus-instead-of-boeing/

@[email protected] Is it a hallucinates, or is it a corporation trying to protect Boeing?

That is the question.

#Hallucinates #AI #Boeing

@VikingChieftain Wonder if #GOP #hallucinates as much as #ChatGPT 🧐 30% delusional sounds about right for their population

@janriemer
People think everything is great until the #llama spits / #AI #hallucinates 🙂

I really appreciate #Bing's #Search AI because it cites as opposed to #Google's #Bard and #OpenAI. This makes it somewhat usable for me. I can't trust one of these large #LLMs to tell me the truth otherwise.

In fact, I've repeatedly asked OpenAI for web resources / books related to specific topics and it invariably #hallucinates them.

Edit: meant to include this link: https://searchengineland.com/google-explains-why-bard-rarely-lists-citations-and-links-to-content-creators-394635

(imho, a primary school student who didn't cite sources wouldn't be allowed this excuse in a paper)

A trained #neural network sees a source sentence in one language, #hallucinates an image of what it looks like, and then uses both to #translate into a target language.
#ComputerScience #AI #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/06/cs06062201.html