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Curious, why do people gravitate to the term "hallucination" (as if it's a person not a tool) instead of just plainly stating that it's wrong?

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If I ask it what color an orange it and it says blue, that would be wrong.

If you ask it a question and it makes up a completely fabricated story, like for example the case files in that recent legal case [1], then saying it was “wrong” doesn’t really seem to capture it.

Calling it a hallucination is a great analogy, because the model made up a plausible sounding, but completely fabricated story. It saw things that were never real.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-c...

Fair enough and thanks. I felt hallucination was too forgiving a term but I can see how others would rank them the other way around and suppose it works.

The more accurate term I’ve seen floating around is “confabulation”. It’s also a human phenomenon, but it doesn’t bring all the baggage of hallucinations.

It’s a chat bot so a lot of language will be anthropomorphic. Even still this definition fits well “3. a false belief or impression; illusion; delusion.”

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