alt Hacker NewsHallucination is accurate for what I'm seeing -- e.g. it's making up information about the 2nd gen Toyota Tundra that has no basis in reality. When challenged, it corrects itself.
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mattjoyce • yesterday at 12:52 PM
Its always been a bad term. If we wanted an accurate term then it's 'confabulation', but 'muddled' or just 'wrong' are also good.
My colleague wanted to diagnose a specific error code on his car himself, and Gemini told him that it's simple to do with an OBD2 dongle - he asked it about the details thoroughly, to confirm, and bought the dongle.
It didn't work. Gemini: "Oh yeah, that obviously cannot work, it's not possible to do it through OBD2" (paraphrasing)
It was quite funny to me, but a bit less so to my colleague.