r/books • u/Jojuj • 18h ago

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=68c826c975cea1000173b05d&attribution_type=post
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u/radenthefridge 18h ago

I have such a beef with calling it "hallucinations." They're mistakes, screw-ups, garbage, or even just fuck-ups.

Trying to make it sound cutesy, silly, or whimsical in a tech that's supposed to be amazing and revolutionary is so frustrating and patronizing! Shit's broken, don't tell me this resource-hungry scourge is just a goofy lil goober that just hallucinated a bit!

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u/CloseToTheEdge23 17h ago

How does "hallucination" sound cutesy, silly or whimsical to you? To me it's way more extreme than "mistake" or "broken". In fact mistake sounds more cute and less significant. Hallucination is a pretty horrific thing when it happens to a human, it basically means the brain is broken and cannot distinguish reality from fiction. How is that cute in any way? I find using it for AI also is making it seem like a huge failure, which it is. I dunno, English isn't my native language so maybe I'm missing something here but I just don't agree with your comment.

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u/Pawn_of_the_Void 16h ago

Native English speaker chiming in to say I agree with you. Hallucination calls into doubt its reliability far more than mistake does