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I prefer “confabulate” to describe this phenomena.

: to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication

> In psychology, confabulation is a memory error consisting of the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world.

It’s more about coming up with a plausible explanation in the absence of a readily-available one.



This is not what hallucination means in the pre-LLM machine learning literature.




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