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jll29 ◴[] No.46216933[source]
AI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what a prompt asked for and produces a prediction, exactly as requested.

Rater, "hallucinations" are spurious replacements of factual knowledge with fictional material caused by the use of statistical process (the pseudo random number generator used with the "temperature" parameter of neural transformers): token prediction without meaning representation.

[typo fixed]

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1. bluejay2387 ◴[] No.46217061[source]
Want to second this. Asking the model to create a work of fiction and it complying isn't a pathology. Mozart wasn't "hallucinating" when he created "The Marriage of Figaro".
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2. Olreich ◴[] No.46217195[source]
But many artists are hallucinating when they envisioned some of their pieces. Who's to say Mozart wasn't on a trip when he created The Marriage of Figaro.
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3. intrasight ◴[] No.46217499[source]
We don't know Mozart's state of mind when he composed.

He didn't hallucinate the Marriage of Figaro but he may well have been hallucinating.

4. jb1991 ◴[] No.46217585[source]
That would have to be a very very long hallucination because it’s a huge opera that took a long time to write.
5. DonHopkins ◴[] No.46218436[source]
Bill Atkinson was hallucinating when he envisioned HyperCard.

https://patternproject.substack.com/p/from-the-mac-to-the-my...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44530767