Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoAnthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publisherschatgptiseatingtheworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1323arrow-down15
arrow-up1318arrow-down1external-linkAnthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publisherschatgptiseatingtheworld.comPro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareJuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoIf you train a parrot to say “I can do calculus!” and then you ask it if it can do calculus, it’ll say “I can do calculus!”. It can’t actually do calculus, so would you say the parrot is lying?
minus-squarewizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoNo, but the parrot isn’t hallucinating either.
If you train a parrot to say “I can do calculus!” and then you ask it if it can do calculus, it’ll say “I can do calculus!”. It can’t actually do calculus, so would you say the parrot is lying?
No, but the parrot isn’t hallucinating either.