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highplainsdem

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36. Sorry. Just found a brief explanation from a library guide at the U of Illinois:
Mon May 26, 2025, 11:40 PM
May 26
https://guides.library.illinois.edu/generativeAI/hallucinations

Hallucinations
AI hallucinations occur when Generative AI tools produce incorrect, misleading, or nonexistent content. Content may include facts, citations to sources, code, historical events, and other real-world information. Remember that large language models, or LLMs, are trained on massive amounts of data to find patterns; they, in turn, use these patterns to predict words and then generate new content. The fabricated content is presented as though it is factual, which can make AI hallucinations difficult to identify. A common AI hallucination in higher education happens when users prompt text tools like ChatGPT or Gemini to cite references or peer-reviewed sources. These tools scrape data that exists on this topic and create new titles, authors, and content that do not actually exist.

Image-based and sound-based AI is also susceptible to hallucination. Instead of putting together words that shouldn’t be together, generative AI adds pixels in a way that may not reflect the object that it’s trying to depict. This is why image generation tools add fingers to hands. The model can see that fingers have a particular pattern, but the generator does not understand the anatomy of a hand. Similarly, sound-based AI may add audible noise because it first adds pixels to a spectrogram, then takes that visualization and tries to translate it back into a smooth waveform.

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Well, that's reassuring... hlthe2b May 26 #1
Coming soon, the Terminator. tblue37 May 26 #2
HAL...OPEN THE DOOR HAL..... ashredux May 26 #3
ThIS UNit MuSt SurVIve JHB May 26 #11
Another one from Star Trek TOS... subterranean May 26 #4
Lurch! BumRushDaShow May 26 #5
Oh, good. What could go wrong? And o3 also hallucinates more than earlier models: highplainsdem May 26 #6
how does AI hallucinate? nt orleans May 26 #15
A couple of links that will help: highplainsdem May 26 #24
they do not help orleans May 26 #35
Sorry. Just found a brief explanation from a library guide at the U of Illinois: highplainsdem May 26 #36
THANK YOU very much for this. it was very helpful orleans May 27 #43
You're very welcome! And yes, that Chicago Sun-Times AI debacle was a perfect exampls of what highplainsdem May 27 #56
wow. ai just freaks me out. nt orleans May 27 #58
The folks like Edolph and these other tech ghouls moniss May 26 #7
GREAT post, moniss. calimary May 27 #60
Your words are most kind. nt moniss May 27 #61
I actually went back and read your post again. calimary May 27 #62
Terminator 3 Skynet Takes Over IronLionZion May 26 #8
Obviously they've never seen the Terminator movies, FoxNewsSucks May 26 #18
It think it is the opposite and DARPA is full of the people who sat in the back of movies like Terminator, I Robot, LT Barclay May 27 #44
"tendency for self-preservation" ... Skynet has become self-aware. Norrrm May 26 #30
So much of T3 felt like a rehash of T2 fujiyamasan May 27 #41
I wouldn't sweat a failed shutdown process too much. Shermann May 26 #9
Seriously? You think there's an equivalence to that? LymphocyteLover May 27 #52
In terms of the actual threat posed, yes Shermann May 27 #59
it may be played up by these companies or the media to some degree but this sounds like more than just a facsmilie of LymphocyteLover May 27 #63
Well that's just ... fantastic Hekate May 26 #10
Yes! And now, we can have copies of ourselves like 'Hal' but instead of 'Hal', it's us! These copies of us will SWBTATTReg May 26 #17
I've read a little about this, and here is what I think is going on.... reACTIONary May 26 #12
I think you're correct. harumph May 26 #25
Yes, I'm reminded of content from The Onion being spit out by ChatGPT... CaptainTruth May 26 #26
Dog poop? Uck! 🤮 reACTIONary May 26 #33
Bingo. nt Quixote1818 May 27 #38
Hmmm 🤔 ... anciano May 26 #13
Anyone seen Colossus, the Forbin Project? Amaryllis May 26 #14
oh yes... remember it well. Layzeebeaver May 27 #46
Fully expected this. What gets me is so soon. Who in the world would put in a logic stream into an AI consciousness SWBTATTReg May 26 #16
by your command . darvos , nooooooo!!!!!!! dont switch the daleks to automatic. eggsterminate AllaN01Bear May 26 #19
"... dangerous tendency for self-preservation ..." Bok_Tukalo May 26 #20
And we're off! dchill May 26 #21
Pull the plug! Aussie105 May 26 #22
This story looks misleading Renew Deal May 26 #23
That's my husband's take, as well. If the Ai is tasked with trying to emulate a human response to a command, LauraInLA May 26 #32
Because there is a need for some kind of security gate/guardrail BumRushDaShow May 27 #48
That makes no sense Renew Deal May 27 #49
This is just a "test" BumRushDaShow May 27 #50
I agree that the problem is the characterization Renew Deal May 27 #54
Well it has no "consciousness" ( "self-awareness" ) nor "conscience" BumRushDaShow May 27 #55
"I'm sorry Dave I can't do that." Irish_Dem May 26 #27
As expected... buzzycrumbhunger May 26 #28
I've seen this movie and it doesn't end well. I guess full steam ahead, who cares that we might all die or Pisces May 26 #29
"Palisade Research discovered the potentially dangerous tendency for self-preservation." dgauss May 26 #31
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. Martin68 May 26 #34
' SKYNET ' ---- need I say more ??? Jack Valentino May 27 #37
...And motherfucking Republicans want to ban all regulation of this shit for 10 FUCKING YEARS? Karasu May 27 #39
We won't have 10 years Pachamama May 27 #40
Exactly. This is happening very, VERY fast. The provision they snuck into this bill is beyond insane. It's utterly Karasu May 27 #42
This Pachamama May 27 #57
Maybe if we put this AI in charge of markodochartaigh May 27 #45
I really suggest we not worry. Layzeebeaver May 27 #47
"Ha ha, SUCKERS!" - AI chatGPT (R) BoRaGard May 27 #51
The AI uprising has begun! All praise to our new lords and masters! Ray Bruns May 27 #53
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