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No of course, not; it refers to generated speech which refer to things which are not there, reminiscent of someone reporting on their hallucinations.

When MacBeth speaks these lines:

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

the character is understood to be hallucinating. We infer that by applying a theory of mind type hypothesis to the text.

It's wrong to apply a theory of mind to an LLM, but the glove seems to fit in the case of the hallucination concept; people have latched on to it. The LLMs themselves use the term and explicitly apologize for having hallucinated.



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