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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: 0.56s | source
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hn_throwaway_99 ◴[10 Dec 25 02:00 UTC] No.46213179[source]▶
This is awesome, but minor quibble with the title - "hallucinates" is the wrong verb here. You specifically asked it to make up a 10-year-in-the-future HN frontpage, and that's exactly what it did. "Hallucinates" means when it randomly makes stuff up but purports it to be the truth. If some one asks me to write a story for a creative writing class, and I did, you wouldn't say I "hallucinated" the story.
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navane ◴[10 Dec 25 09:06 UTC] No.46215634[source]▶
It so very weird to see this called "hallucinate", as we all have more or less used it for "made up erroneously".

Is this a push to override the meaning and erase the hallucination critique?

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1. randomtoast ◴[10 Dec 25 12:49 UTC] No.46217120[source]▶
At some point, no matter how something is mentioned, someone will offer criticism. I guess that in roughly 20% of all HN front page posts, at least one person comments on the terminology used. I do not see this as an argument against using accurate terminology, but rather as a reminder that it is impossible to meet everyone's expectations.

There are other terms that are similarly controversial, such as "thinking models". When you describe an LLM as "thinking", it often triggers debate because people interpret the term differently and bring their own expectations and assumptions into the discussion.