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It's more like, the LLM "hallucinated" (I hate that term) and automatically posted the information to the forum. It sounds like the human didn't get a chance to reason about it. At least not the original human that asked the LLM for an answer

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I’m not in AI, but what is happening is that it is building output from the long tail of its training data? Instead of branching down the more common probability paths, something in this interaction had it travel into the data wilderness?

So I asked AI to give it a good name, and it said “statistical wandering” or “logical improv”.

If you don't like hallucinate, try bullshit. [NB: bullshit is a technical term; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit]

https://www.psypost.org/scholars-ai-isnt-hallucinating-its-b...

That is my preferred term, but it seems to derail discussions that might have otherwise been productive (might...the hope I have)

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