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Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

#42

Can we stop calling these confabulated artifacts, "Hallucinations"? Hallucinating is perceiving things that are not there, imagining and creating things that feel believable but are not there is confabulation. LLMs are imagination machines. They are Generative Artificial Intelligence not perception models.

The comment you wrote was on a device which should not be called a “phone” either. The word hallucinate is probably just going to grow to mean “anything an AI imagined.”

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

#45

Can we stop calling these confabulated artifacts, "Hallucinations"? Hallucinating is perceiving things that are not there, imagining and creating things that feel believable but are not there is confabulation. LLMs are imagination machines. They are Generative Artificial Intelligence not perception models.

Dude, I agree with you. The first time I saw people derogatively referring to LLM imaginings years ago as "hallucinations" seemingly to discredit them, I felt mad. Becuase it's not right. So, this was my sort-of tongue-in-cheek reappropriation of the abused-term for a positive context. You are permitted to enjoy :)

Also: as the sibling comment by iambatemen notes: yes.

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

#47

This suffers from a common pitfall of LLM's, context taint. You can see it is obviously the front page from today with slight "future" variation, the result ends up being very formulaic.

Isn't that a common pitfall of humans too?

In numerous shows these days AI is the big bad thing. Before that it was crypto. In the 1980s every bad guy was Russian, etc.

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

#50
Exactly half of these HN usernames actually exist. So either there are enough people on HN that follow common conventions for Gemini to guess from a more general distribution, or Gemini has memorized some of the more popular posters. The ones that are missing:

- aphyr_bot - bio_hacker - concerned_grandson - cyborg_sec - dang_fan - edge_compute - founder_jane - glasshole2 - monad_lover - muskwatch - net_hacker - oldtimer99 - persistence_is_key - physics_lover - policy_wonk - pure_coder - qemu_fan - retro_fix - skeptic_ai - stock_watcher

Huge opportunity for someone to become the actual dang fan.

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