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4 pointstnorthcutt7mo ago1 comments

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Would also be helpful if we, and the author does not here, avoided use of inappropriately anthropomorphic concepts to describe LLM output, such as "hallucination". We already have a more appropriate word available, "confabulation".

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A Vaccine for Anthropomorphism of AI (opens in new tab)

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4 pointstnorthcutt7mo ago1 comments

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waffletower7mo ago

Would also be helpful if we, and the author does not here, avoided use of inappropriately anthropomorphic concepts to describe LLM output, such as "hallucination". We already have a more appropriate word available, "confabulation".

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