LLMs confabulate not hallucinate
LLM "hallucinations" arise, regularly, because (a) they literally don't know the difference between truth and falsehood, (b) they don't have reliably reasoning processes to guarantee that their inferences are correct and (c) they are incapable of fact-checking their own work. Instead, everything that LLMs say -- true or false -- comes from the same... See more
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Therefore, in both confabulation and dreaming, altered functioning of the prefrontal cortex may release from reality-filtering or executive constraint an innate human tendency to create stories that organize past, present, and future reality. Dreaming may represent a potent, naturally occurring form of confabulation in which imaginary events are no
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Gazzaniga venait de découvrir que les gens inventent facilement des raisons à leurs comportements, c’est ce que l’on appelle de la «confabulation». La confabulation est fréquente chez les patients qui ont des lésions dans le cerveau, en particulier chez ceux dont les deux hémisphères ne communiquent plus.