Meg Ahern, Ph.D.
@megahern.bsky.social
Cognitive science enthusiast; sociology of knowledge and feminist cultural studies lens. Equity and gender equality in int'l dev too. Just here for nerdery (and cute animal photos).
As someone fascinated by the role of confabulation in our daily lives, I totally support this:
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Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations'
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
December 11, 2024 at 4:41 PM
As someone fascinated by the role of confabulation in our daily lives, I totally support this:
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November 27, 2024 at 4:17 AM
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I love the many welcome reminders in this nurturing piece from Alexis Pauline Gumbs, especially her reference to her living inside of the Black feminist tradition "not as a protective bubble or a nostalgic fantasy but as an archive of possibility and intergenerational accountability."
“stay strong”
Dearly Beloveds, I am writing to you across a day I cannot predict. But maybe that is always true. You will receive this on a day shaped by the countless (and possibly still being counted) decisions…
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November 14, 2024 at 4:39 AM
I love the many welcome reminders in this nurturing piece from Alexis Pauline Gumbs, especially her reference to her living inside of the Black feminist tradition "not as a protective bubble or a nostalgic fantasy but as an archive of possibility and intergenerational accountability."