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Naomi Klein's recent essay about AI^[1] suggests that the real "hallucination" problem in AI is that it's promoters are not seeing the real world clearly. Some of her points about the effect of AI rollout on human employment may be germane to the present discussion.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-mac...

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You're preaching to the cult here. There is a marked lack of AI criticism and skepticism on this forum. There's a few are trying to gaslight skeptics (yes, gaslight) that current AI is close to being sentient, and/or humans are not much smarter than it, and/or we should consider and evaluate its output as if it were created by a human.

I don't know if it's laughable, or utterly terrifying giving such a powerful tool into the hands of reckless wannabe entrepreneurs.

It's hype for suckers intentionally created by the mega corps (remember "Sparks of AGI"?). The real goal is to get away with theft long enough until the regulators give up and accept their right to be above the law (aka "disruption"). And then there's the army of intentionally misguided youtube creators that want to get views by showing how they created a website without knowing html

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