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

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    TBH I hate the term “hallucination” in this context. It’s just more BS anthropomorphizing. More marketing for “AI” (also BS). Can’t we just call it like garbage or GIGO or something more accurate? This is nothing new. I know that scientific accuracy is anathema to AI marketing but just saying…

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      6 months ago

      We don’t choose. It’s decided to be the term for this. Computer bugs aren’t bugs. Etc etc. It’s just what the scientists called it