Some people seem to get very angry about calling it "hallucination", because it's a computer, computers can't hallucinate! Stop anthropomorphising it!!
So I suppose if you want to stay on the right side of those people - or you are one - you call it confabulation instead.
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Some people seem to get very angry about calling it "hallucination", because it's a computer, computers can't hallucinate! Stop anthropomorphising it!!
So I suppose if you want to stay on the right side of those people - or you are one - you call it confabulation instead.
There’s also the position that a definition of confabulate…
To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.
…is much more accurate.
Since we’re talking about a technical process it helps to be more precise in our use of language.
I like to think that it's always confabulating.
It's just that usually the words it generates are accurate enough for my needs.
If it can’t hallucinate, can it “believe”? I think all the pedantry is silly.