Every time we use the term “hallucination,” it is harder to remember that Clippy is a better mental model for existing AI than Skynet is.

It might be too late to withdraw the election of “hallucination” to term du jour in the public discourse, but we may still be able to draw on Mjolsness, Baker, and Kanade’s version of the term to recast AI’s output as the bullshit it truly is.

Calling out the term Hallucination when a machine creates complete nonsense or as reframed here BS - dctr.pro/2pn