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Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a really bad term because it's usually associated with a mind, and LLMs are nothing of the sort.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Anthropomorphication is hard to avoid in AI.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 years ago

Many worthy things are difficult.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

But is anthropomorphism of AI particularly worrying?

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 years ago

It is when the people tends to give more credence to entities that appear sentient and to have agency.

[-] TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

So is bullshitting. More so, only human minds can bullshit.

We anthropomorphize machines all the time, it's fine.

I'd prefer we'd start calling all genai output hallucinations again. It used to be like 10 years ago, but somewhere along the line marketing decided hallucinated truths aren't "hallucinations".

[-] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

So is bullshitting. More so, only human minds can bullshit.

And a bull's anus.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 years ago

We anthropomorphize machines all the time, it's fine.

It's fucking not, amd I'm not changing my mind about it.

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