@farsinuce
> an advanced form of pattern recognition
I’d say so, but don’t quote me on this. I’m just a badly educated skeptic on this topic :)

> mislabeled as hallucinations
Actually, I wouldn’t call it “mislabeled”. I loved this term when I first read it. But we are now in the “coining terminology” phase — and there seems to be a much better fitting term, “confabulation”. I wonder which word is used by Danish psychiatrists.

As a side note on not the best terminology — I’ve read that calling bad code “technical debt” doesn’t convey all seriousness of the situation. In business terms debt is not just unavoidable, but is often desirable (especially when debt is manageable, cheap). (Ultra-rich in the US use personal debt as tax avoidance scheme). Yet saying “unhedged risk” suddenly makes finance people start listening — essentially, you don’t know when and how bad it is going to backfire.

@EvilCartyen @farsinuce i agree with the main message, just commenting on the terminology. Some people (https://www.integrative-psych.org/resources/confabulation-not-hallucination-ai-errors) say that instead of “hallucination” (making stuff up unrelated to external stimuli) a better word would be “confabulation” (making stuff up on a certain topic). All that current “AIs” can do is take a task and produce a string of symbols that appears related to the question.