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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. doe88 ◴[] No.46218588[source]
Exactly! At first this is the precise reason I didn't click through as I thought from the title, a page must have been somehow outputted/hallucinated by error, but luckily I then saw the number of votes, revised my choice and saw a great page.

I'm partial though, loving Haskell myself (as a monad_lover) i'm happy it wasn't forgotten too :)