University of Glasgow

For a long time, people have often referred to the plausible but erroneous answers provided by large language models as "AI hallucinations". However, three philosophical researchers from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom recently suggested otherwise -- that "AI hallucinations" is not an accurate description. The paper by the three researchers was published on June 8 (local time) in the journal Ethics and Information Technology. The paper points out that the behavior of chatbots "making up" answers should not be called "hallucinations," but rather "bullshitting...