Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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 · 1 month agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareJuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month 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-up1·1 month 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.