Why “hallucinate” is being discussed
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> show the massive compute requirement between LLMs and ordinary programs completely agree, but it is at least raising the point that 150-300x is only a bit wider than things li…
by keeganpoppen · Oct 30, 2026
Not even that Proton CEO claimed that. This is another one of those "no u" knee-jerk reactions littered all over this site, and I wonder when we'll first see stuff like "but hum…
by customguy · Oct 30, 2026
> have LMMs hallucinate an entire operating system (...) technically it's now proven to be technically possible You're comparing apples to oranges there! To hallucinate is arbit…
by flockonus · Oct 30, 2026
Humans don't literally hallucinate much, but we do lie, or are wrong.
by delecti · Oct 30, 2026
Humans hallucinate much more, but they're not that good at making the hallucinations convincing.
by raincole · Oct 30, 2026
I guess humans don't hallucinate that much
by NeOchenHorosho · Oct 30, 2026
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A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external context stimulus that has the compelling sense of reality. They are distinguishable from several related phenomena, such as dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness; pseudohallucination, which does not mimic real perception, and is accurately perceived as unreal; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; and mental imagery, which does not mimic real perception, and is under voluntary control. Hallucinations also differ from "delusional perceptions", in which a correctly sensed and interpreted stimulus is given some additional significance. Read more on Wikipedia