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		johnnyanmac 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why language models hallucinate >This requires hallucination, because it has to make up things. The story has to be original. Is it a hallucination if the story is original? There's a difference between "what's the rest of this famous poem?" and "let's just make poetry".

lucketone 5 months ago | [–]

It is irrelevant for the point being made: LLM does exactly the same thing in both cases - generates statistically plausible text, based on examples it was exposed during training.

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