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Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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3337 points keepamovin | 1 comments | 09 Dec 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.193s | source
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fn-mote ◴[09 Dec 25 17:10 UTC] No.46207492[source]▶
The title is misleading. This isn't the correct use of the term "hallucination". Hallucination refers to making up facts, not extrapolating into the future.

I read 10 comments before I realized that this was referring to 10 years in the FUTURE and not in the PAST (as would be required for it to be a hallucination).

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1. alexwebb2 ◴[09 Dec 25 21:40 UTC] No.46211084[source]▶
You're correct, OP used the word "hallucination" wrong. A lot of these other comments are missing the point – some deliberately ('don't they ONLY hallucinate, har har'), some not.

For those who genuinely don't know – hallucination specifically means false positive identification of a fact or inference (accurate or not!) that isn't supported by the LLM's inputs.

- ask for capital of France, get "London" => hallucination

- ask for current weather in London, get "It's cold and rainy!" and that happens to be correct, despite not having live weather data => hallucination

- ask for capital of DoesNotExistLand, get "DoesNotExistCity" => hallucination

- ask it to give its best GUESS for the current weather in London, it guess "cold and rainy" => not a hallucination