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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: 0.399s | source
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jll29 ◴[10 Dec 25 12:24 UTC] 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.

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1. psychoslave ◴[10 Dec 25 14:48 UTC] No.46218282[source]▶
In French we call that kind of practices "affabulations". Maybe fraud, deception or deceit are the closest matching translations for this context.

That is what the LLM are molded to do (of course). But this is also the insistence by informed people to unceasingly use fallacious vocabulary. Sure a bit of analogy can be didactic, but the current trend is rather to leverage on every occasion to spread the impression that LLM works with processes similar to human thoughts.

A good analogy also communicate the fact that it is a mere analogy. So carrying the metaphor is only going to accumulate more delusion than comprehension.