Sure, and it's probably wise not to pick error categorizations that impute consciousness onto a thing that's 1) almost certainly not conscious, 2) behaves quite similarly to a conscious thing, and 3) might become conscious at some point in the near or distant future
Hallucinations are definitionally features of conscious experience. Pick a different word or make one up!
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Then tell us what we should call these manifestations...
It's say to say stop calling it X, but then what are we supposed to call them?
A popular term in the LLM space is 'confabulation': https://community.openai.com/t/hallucination-vs-confabulatio...
It fits better than the alternatives I've seen proposed.
Malfunctions? Breaking? Errors? Poor reliability?
The problem I have with this is it seems too generic.
Shouldn't we try to categorize the types of errors at least somewhat?
Sure, and it's probably wise not to pick error categorizations that impute consciousness onto a thing that's 1) almost certainly not conscious, 2) behaves quite similarly to a conscious thing, and 3) might become conscious at some point in the near or distant future
Hallucinations are definitionally features of conscious experience. Pick a different word or make one up!
I guess to me hallucination doesn't necessarily imply consciousness.
"an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present"
I guess it depends on exactly how you define "experience" and "perception".
But yeah there are better words than hallucination that are even more generic and do work better.
We should call it Twitter.