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michaelcampbell ◴[] No.46182585[source]
After an interview with Cory Doctorow I saw recently, I'm going to stop anthropomorphizing these things by calling them "hallucinations". They're computers, so these incidents are just simply Errors.
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Ekaros ◴[] No.46183153[source]
We still use term bug. And no modern bug is cause by an Arthropod. In that sense I think hallucination is fair term. As coming up anything sufficiently better is hard.
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1. teddyh ◴[] No.46184524[source]
An actually better (and also more accurate) term would be “confabulations”. Unfortunately, it has not caught on.