How 'Hallucinate' Sold Sentience // AIDRAN

Terminology in the AI industry has not been neutral description — it has been a pre-emptive move in an argument about what the technology is. When 'hallucinate' became the industry standard for factual errors, it did not simply name a phenomenon; it framed errors as the exception to a normally functioning mind. This matters commercially, because a system with a known error rate is a product with a defect, while a system that occasionally 'hallucinates' is a sophisticated entity having an unusual experience. The vocabulary choice reorganizes the user's evaluation…

The Word 'Hallucinate' Was Never an Accident

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