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		chaosist on Sept 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPTs and Hallucination Frankfurt's use of bullshit is what has always came to my mind also but you make an excellent point. I think we really need a new word for this process because it really is just not comparable to anything previously. Unfortunately, "hallucinate" is a horse that has left the barn with seemingly no possible way of replacing the horse at this point.

empthought on Sept 12, 2024 [–]

It's a computer bullshitting, the same way as a computer calculating is comparable to a human calculating unaided by a computer.

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