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Hallucination as a term is, I guess, getting some blowback.
Everybody hates every word in AI.
They don't understand.
They don't think people need jobs and hobbies.
I mean, look, words matter, and language does evolve, and we do get to points where we decide we're not gonna use words anymore.
And I respect that process.
I don't know if I'm there yet with hallucination.
I did hear someone suggest that we should replace that with the word confabulation, which I love.
Cause it sounds so british, like, did you just hear, like, a little british man saying, like, oh, my AI model?
It's confabulating.
I've got myself in a right spot of trouble with all these confabulations.
It's just very fun to say.
It's incredibly fun to say.
I'm Kevin Ruse, tech columnist of the New York Times.