No, they don't hallucinate “all the time”, but LLM “hallucination” is a bad metaphor, as the phenomenon is more like confabulation than hallucination.
Humans also don’t confabulate all the time, either, though.
No, they don't hallucinate “all the time”, but LLM “hallucination” is a bad metaphor, as the phenomenon is more like confabulation than hallucination.
Humans also don’t confabulate all the time, either, though.
> "It's important to recognize hallucinations can come and go during our lives at points of stress or tiredness," Seth said. "There is a bit of a stigma around hallucinations. It comes from people associating them with mental illness and being called crazy."
> But it's actually very common and happens even daily. The itching Yarwood experiences is particularly common, especially after drinking alcohol.
> "It's also common for people with reduced hearing or vision function to get hallucinations in that ear or eye," said Rick Adams, a psychiatrist at University College London. "These are non-clinical hallucinations because they are not associated with a psychiatric diagnosis."
https://www.dw.com/en/hallucinations-are-more-common-than-yo...
Confabulation is more like making something up when you don't have sufficient knowledge. Seems to happen regularly :)