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The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I see Google's deal with Reddit is going just great...

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

TBH I'm curious what the difference between this and "hallucinating" would be.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think 'hallucinating' means when it makes up the source/idea by (effectively) word association that generates the concept, rather than here it's repeating a real source.

[–] PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Couldn't that describe 95% of what LLMs?

It is a really good auto complete at the end of the day, just some times the auto complete gets it wrong

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, nicely put! I suppose 'hallucinating' is a description of when, to the reader, it appears to state a fact but that fact doesn't at all represent any fact from the training data.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well it's referencing something so the problem is the data set not an inherent flaw in the AI

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i'm pretty sure that referencing this indicates an inherent flaw in the AI

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No it represents an inherent flaw in the people developing the AI.

That's a totally different thing. Concept is not flawed the people implementing the concept are.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Of course, this flexibility that allows for anything good and popular to be part of a natural, inevitable precursor to the true metaverse, simultaneously provides the flexibility to dismiss any failing as a failure of that pure vision, rather than a failure of the underlying ideas themselves. The metaverse cannot fail, you can only fail to make the metaverse."

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