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   Nick Byrd (byrdnick@nerdculture.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 19:17:33 JST Nick Byrd

   Overheard at a conference about #AI in #Medicine:

   Speaker: "I hear neurologists prefer we say that generative AI systems 'confabulate' and not that they 'hallucinate'."

   Neurologist [shouting from the back of the room]: "CORRECT!"

   #psychiatry #neuroscience #sciComm #edu

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     Sebbe (royalrex@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 19:17:30 JST Sebbe

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     • Kevin Marks

     @KevinMarks @ByrdNick that's a great list of toots. I like this one:
     "This is my deeper worry about AI - as we demand that the AI justify its decision to us, we create an incentive model for confabulation, just as we have for natural intelligence. Personalised reassuring salesmanship and gaslighting."

     Especially: "Personalised reassuring salesmanship and gaslighting" Ouch...

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     Kevin Marks (kevinmarks@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 19:17:32 JST Kevin Marks

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     @ByrdNick indeed, I've been saying this for a while now (I'm not a neurologist though) https://www.kevinmarks.com/confabulation.html

     Rich Felker repeated this.