AI Models Hallucinate Details, Revealing Creativity Alongside Risks
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LLMs like ChatGPT sometimes "hallucinate" facts that seem real but are fabricated. This happens because models compress training data and lose details.
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Hallucinations reveal truths about alternate realities and can spur creativity by generating novel ideas.
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For now, hallucinations keep humans in the loop by requiring fact checking before fully trusting AI outputs.
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Eliminating hallucinations may one day lead to massive unemployment as AI takes over professional work.
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We should celebrate hallucinations while we can, before AI becomes too accurate and trusted to allow breathing room.