When Google launched Bard, an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company decided to show off the system’s capabilities. In a segment on the television show 60 Minutes, the Bard system recommended and summarized five books, dazzling the host.[7] After the 60 Minutes team looked up the books the system recommended, they found out the books did not exist. The titles were made up. A chatbot confidently responding with made-up information is referred to by some AI developers as “hallucination.” Author and cultural critic Naomi Klein observes that the term hallucination is a clever way to market
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