In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.
It’s unfortunate that the word “hallucination” even got associated with LLMs in the first place… Hallucination refers to an erroneous perception. These chatbots don’t even have the capacity to perceive, let alone make errors. They have no senses, no awareness, no intentions, nothing. It’s just an inanimate machine crunching through a complex formula. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.
They’re still lying. For fucks sake. It’s like they impaled you on a pike and just admitted “okay so we did prick you with that needle”.
ALL IT DOES IS HALLUCINATE. ALL IT DOES IS HALLUCINATE. ALL IT DOES IS HALLUCINATE. ALL IT DOES IS HALLUCINATE!
SOMETIMES the hallucinations happen to resemble reality. Just because a hallucination happens to look similar to reality does not make it real.
IT IS NOT PERCEIVING REALITY.
EVER!
EVER!
Ever.
It’s unfortunate that the word “hallucination” even got associated with LLMs in the first place… Hallucination refers to an erroneous perception. These chatbots don’t even have the capacity to perceive, let alone make errors. They have no senses, no awareness, no intentions, nothing. It’s just an inanimate machine crunching through a complex formula. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.