To be fair, they call it a hallucination because hallucinations don’t have intent behind them.
LLMs don’t have any intent. Period.
A purposeful lie requires an intent to lie.
Without any intent, it’s not a lie.
I agree that “fabrication” is probably a better word for it, especially because it implies the industrial computing processes required to build these fabrications. It allows the word fabrication to function as a double entendre: It has been fabricated by industrial processes, and it is a fabrication as in a false idea made from nothing.
To be fair, they call it a hallucination because hallucinations don’t have intent behind them.
LLMs don’t have any intent. Period.
A purposeful lie requires an intent to lie.
Without any intent, it’s not a lie.
I agree that “fabrication” is probably a better word for it, especially because it implies the industrial computing processes required to build these fabrications. It allows the word fabrication to function as a double entendre: It has been fabricated by industrial processes, and it is a fabrication as in a false idea made from nothing.