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margalabargala 4 hours ago

> In any other software it would be an error, regression, bug.

How is "bug", literally an organism with a will of its own that you cannot control, any less of a weasel word?

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usernomdeguerre 3 hours ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering)#History

But on reflection I don't disagree it was probably made for similar effect in the era of human software development. That sounds like it strengthens my point?

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margalabargala 3 hours ago | parent [-]

On the contrary I think it weakens your point.

People don't consider "bug" a weasel word, to the point that you yourself held it up as an example of not being a weasel word, despite it being a willful, uncontrollable organism.

I see no reason why "hallucination" won't become a similar piece of neutral jargon. It already is for many people, even if you're not (yet?) among them.

	▲	usernomdeguerre 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It becomes a neutral term because we are practicioners (presumably?) who benefit from it and have thus let it become habitual. I already admitted it was weasely upon reflection. If you want this class of LLM error to also become habitual and neutral then fine, I don't, and I think many others don't.