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		dgs_sgd on July 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Overcoming the limits of current LLMs I think calling it hallucination is because of our tendency to anthropomorphize things. Humans hallucinate. Programs have bugs.

threeseed on July 18, 2024 [–]

The point is that this isn't a bug.

It's inherent to how LLMs work and is expected although undesired behaviour.

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