• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    8 hours 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?

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      7 hours 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.”