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AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay
(www.newscientist.com)
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I mean lot of stuff is written in forums and social media, where people hallucinate. Or even in real life if you talk to one. Its normal for a human to pick up something in their life, later talk about it as a fact, regardless of where they learned it (tv, forum, videogame, school). Hallucinations are part of our brain.
Sometimes being aware of the hallucination issue is still a hallucination. Sometimes we are also aware of the hallucination an Ai makes, because its obvious or we can check it. And also there are Ai chatbots who "talk" and phrase in a more human natural sounding way. Not all of them sound obvious robotic.
Just for the record, I'm skeptical of Ai technology... not biggest fan. Please don't fork me. :D
Yeah, sure. No offense. I mean we have different humans as well. I got friends who will talk about a subject and they've read some article about it and they'll tell me a lot of facts and I rarely see them make any mistakes at all or confuse things. And then I got friends who like to talk a lot, and I better check where they picked that up.
I think I'm somewhere in the middle. I definitely make mistakes. But sometimes my brain manages to store where I picked something up and whether that was speculation, opinion or fact, along with the information itself. I've had professors who would quote information verbatim and tell roughly where and in which book to find it.
With AI I'm currently very cautious. I've seen lots of confabulated summaries, made-up facts. And if designed to, it'll write it in a professional tone. I'm not opposed to AI or a big fan of some applications either. I just think it's still very far away from what I've seen some humans are able to do.