Is confabulation different from hallucination? If not I do suppose this is a more accurate term for the phenomenon except that the exact definition isn’t common sense without looking it up whereas “hallucination” is more widely understood.
So I suppose if you want to stay on the right side of those people - or you are one - you call it confabulation instead.
To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.
…is much more accurate.
Since we’re talking about a technical process it helps to be more precise in our use of language.
It's just that usually the words it generates are accurate enough for my needs.
> Here we develop new methods grounded in statistics, proposing entropy-based uncertainty estimators for LLMs to detect a subset of hallucinations—confabulations—which are arbitrary and incorrect generations.