• @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    492 days ago

    Pretty engrained vocabulary at this point. Lies implies intent. I would have preferred “errors”

    Also, for the record, this is the most dystopian headline I’ve come across to date.

    • dohpaz42
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      92 days ago

      If a human does not know an answer to a question, yet they make some shit up instead of saying “I don’t know”, what would you call that?

      • @ramirezmike@programming.dev
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        422 days ago

        that’s a lie. They knowingly made something up. The AI doesn’t know what it’s saying so it’s not lying. “Hallucinating” isn’t a perfect word but it’s much more accurate than “lying.”

      • @JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
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        62 days ago

        If you train a parrot to say “I can do calculus!” and then you ask it if it can do calculus, it’ll say “I can do calculus!”. It can’t actually do calculus, so would you say the parrot is lying?

        • @5too@lemmy.world
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          This is what I’ve been calling it. Not as a pejorative term, just descriptive. It has no concept of truth or not-truth, it just tells good-sounding stories. It’s just bullshitting. It’s a bullshit engine.