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The concerns about hallucination are overstated. LLMs don’t hallucinate nearly as much as they used to.

I encounter it daily in the LLM outputs my coworkers produce.

I see it every day in the text, images, and video posted by AI proponents on social media. Full of errors and wtfs and the people posting the tripe don't seem to notice it.

Maybe you've just stopped paying attention so you don't notice as much anymore?

Would your co-workers not make sh!t up if they weren't using LLMs? Pretty sure they would. And MUCH more frequently than the very rare hallucinations one runs into with decent LLMs these days.

My coworkers can be wrong, sure. But no, they weren't making stuff up pre-LLMs. But now making stuff up is automated and easy, so we've gone from simply mistaken to piles of "what the hell is this even trying to say?"

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