AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@simonmic that's one spectacularly bad article. Lot's of drama, keywords and asking for applause. It's like they really wanted one particular nail to go in and banged it with all the hammers they have got. NYT-level narrative peddling.
@simonmic And, yes, the models are exactly hallucinating. For the same reasons the human brains do, for all we know at this time. No need to call in mysticism for this.
And no, generative models wouldn’t solve any crisis. But for journalistic integrity, don’t conflate a subclass with the whole thing! Of course AIs of the future will solve that. For the same reasons a human thought could (in theory) do it.
