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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

No, hallucination is a really good term. It can be super confident and seemingly correct but still completely made up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I think delusion might be a better word. You can hallucinate and know it's not real

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That is just being WRONG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It's a really bad term because it's usually associated with a mind, and LLMs are nothing of the sort.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So is bullshitting. More so, only human minds can bullshit.

We anthropomorphize machines all the time, it's fine.

I'd prefer we'd start calling all genai output hallucinations again. It used to be like 10 years ago, but somewhere along the line marketing decided hallucinated truths aren't "hallucinations".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

So is bullshitting. More so, only human minds can bullshit.

And a bull's anus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anthropomorphication is hard to avoid in AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Many worthy things are difficult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

But is anthropomorphism of AI particularly worrying?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It is, but it isnt applicable in at least the glue-pizza situation as the probable source comment has been found on reddit.

A better use of the term might be how when you try to get Bing's image creator to make "Battletech" art, you just mostly get really obvious Warhammer 40k Space Marines and occasionally Iron Maiden album art.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

for it to "hallucinate" things, it would have to believe in what it's saying. ai is unable to think - so it cannot hallucinate

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hallucination is a technical term. Nothing to do with thinking. The scientific community could have chosen another term to describe the issue but hallucination explains really well what's happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

huh, i kinda assumed it was a term made up/taken by journalists mostly, are there actual research papers on this using that term?