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> A challenge is that it’s not easy to limit hallucinations without also limiting imagination and synthesis.

> In humans.

True, but distinguishing reality from imagination is a cornerstone of mental health. And it's becoming apparent that the average person will take the confident spurious affirmations of LLMs as facts, which should call their mental health into question.




Misremembering facts isn’t a negative mental health event, yet is an example of imagination rather than recall — similar to LLMs hallucinating.

Humans imagine events all the time, without the ability to know that happened. Part of why eye-witness testimony is so unreliable.




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