Before we had woke, we had DEI. Before we had DEI, we had PC culture.
Before we had doxxing we had invasion of privacy.
Has the term AI just repurposed the concept of….pagerank?
Look, I am but a layman, but i swear to fucking christ AI is just a glorified search engine and they have made google search unusable on purpose.
A ‘hallucination’ in my mind is specifically when it fabricates direct lies that are contradicted by evidence (that’s usually in the same search results).
E.g. confidently giving you incorrect ISBN or DOI nubers for things. Which is does a lot. It also just makes up APIs for real, existing, documented APIs because it assumes patterns that don’t exist for that specific project.
The whole ‘slop squatting’ exploit is based around those types of hallucinations. People have successfully noticed fake npm packages being imported repeatedly by LLM codebases and made them so they would actually install…