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This article shows rather well three reasons why I don't like the term "hallucination", when it comes to LLM output.
On the main topic of the article. Are LLMs useful? Sure! I use them myself. However only a fool would try to shove LLMs everywhere, with no regards to how intrinsically [yes] unsafe they are. And yet it's what big tech is doing, regardless of being Chinese or United-Statian or Russian or German or whatever.
I don't really agree with that argument. By that logic, there's really no such thing as a software bug, since the software is always doing what it's supposed to be doing: giving predefined instructions to a processor that performs some action. It's "supposed to" provide a useful response to prompts, anything other than is it not what it should be and could be fairly called a malfunction.
There's no objective definition of "useful". Objectively the program is working. Subjectively it's not working how certain people want it to work.
We're talking about the meaning of "malfunction" here, we don't need to overthink it and construct a rigorous proof or anything. The creator of the thing can decide what the thing they're creating is supposed to do. You can say
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