Unyielding madness and confabulations. It’s not lying. He no longer understands what’s happening around him.
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Trump on DC: "The restaurants the last two days were busier than they've been in a long time." (Data in fact shows restaurant business dropping sharply over last week.)
August 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Unyielding madness and confabulations. It’s not lying. He no longer understands what’s happening around him.
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September 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Yes, people with dementia genuinely believe the confabulations their brains create.
- Confabulation is not a conscious lie or an attempt to deceive.
-The brain stitches together old memories, dreams, or mixed-up facts to form what it thinks is a true story.
- Confabulation is not a conscious lie or an attempt to deceive.
-The brain stitches together old memories, dreams, or mixed-up facts to form what it thinks is a true story.
September 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Yes, people with dementia genuinely believe the confabulations their brains create.
- Confabulation is not a conscious lie or an attempt to deceive.
-The brain stitches together old memories, dreams, or mixed-up facts to form what it thinks is a true story.
- Confabulation is not a conscious lie or an attempt to deceive.
-The brain stitches together old memories, dreams, or mixed-up facts to form what it thinks is a true story.
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And, the proper term for an Ai chatbot's fuckups is confabulations, not hallucinations.
And, the proper term for an Ai chatbot's fuckups is confabulations, not hallucinations.
September 24, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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And, the proper term for an Ai chatbot's fuckups is confabulations, not hallucinations.
And, the proper term for an Ai chatbot's fuckups is confabulations, not hallucinations.
petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations'
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
December 11, 2024 at 9:47 AM
petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations'
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
So they’ve made idiot machines programmed never to say ‘I don’t know’ or even acknowledge that an answer might not be known, but trot out confabulations with the mendacious confidence of their human creators.
March 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
So they’ve made idiot machines programmed never to say ‘I don’t know’ or even acknowledge that an answer might not be known, but trot out confabulations with the mendacious confidence of their human creators.
Perplexity - 37% wrong; ChatGPT - 67% wrong. Grok 3 - 94% wrong. For free options. Paid options are wrong more frequently.
“…rather than declining to respond when they lacked reliable information, the models frequently provided confabulations—plausible-sounding incorrect or speculative answers.”
“…rather than declining to respond when they lacked reliable information, the models frequently provided confabulations—plausible-sounding incorrect or speculative answers.”
Confabulations are still worryingly common across all of today's AI tools.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Perplexity - 37% wrong; ChatGPT - 67% wrong. Grok 3 - 94% wrong. For free options. Paid options are wrong more frequently.
“…rather than declining to respond when they lacked reliable information, the models frequently provided confabulations—plausible-sounding incorrect or speculative answers.”
“…rather than declining to respond when they lacked reliable information, the models frequently provided confabulations—plausible-sounding incorrect or speculative answers.”
Article by disgruntled articles complaining about Pubpeer, with fake references and other confabulations.
Papermillers complain about PubPeer.
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An expert criticism on post-publication peer review platforms: the case of pubpeer - DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
While traditional peer review offers advantages in academic publishing, it is often hampered by significant weaknesses, leading to frustration among many authors. Scientific discoveries after publicat...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Article by disgruntled articles complaining about Pubpeer, with fake references and other confabulations.
Trump continues to get away, almost daily, with confabulations or straight lies that would probably destroy almost any other elected leader
Did the US President just...invent a story about being there on 9/11? (there's no evidence he was there and you'd have thought it would've been noticed).
Trump on 9/11: "I just thank my people. I was building a big building in New York & I took the whole crew down there right after this happened & they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me... we thought it was coming down on top of us... two fireman lifted me up and started running with me"
September 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Trump continues to get away, almost daily, with confabulations or straight lies that would probably destroy almost any other elected leader
"Those who are ready to protest against, and resist, what is happening today are legion, but the political means for doing so are for the moment unclear or absent.
How to wait in this state of forgetfulness?”
John Berger, from "Confabulations (2016), his final book
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
How to wait in this state of forgetfulness?”
John Berger, from "Confabulations (2016), his final book
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
January 16, 2026 at 11:17 PM
"Those who are ready to protest against, and resist, what is happening today are legion, but the political means for doing so are for the moment unclear or absent.
How to wait in this state of forgetfulness?”
John Berger, from "Confabulations (2016), his final book
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
How to wait in this state of forgetfulness?”
John Berger, from "Confabulations (2016), his final book
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
Totalitarianism, fascism—choose whatever antidemocratic political system you like—emerge when trust is displaced by paranoia & suspicion. AI as a set of tools that simplifies the messy data of life to offer predictions, recommendations, & confabulations is the perfect vehicle for achieving this end.
I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.
July 5, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Totalitarianism, fascism—choose whatever antidemocratic political system you like—emerge when trust is displaced by paranoia & suspicion. AI as a set of tools that simplifies the messy data of life to offer predictions, recommendations, & confabulations is the perfect vehicle for achieving this end.
They actually think confabulations and hallucinations are good. That’s what we are up against.
June 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
They actually think confabulations and hallucinations are good. That’s what we are up against.
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Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations'
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
December 11, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
Dementia is hitting hard tonight. Trapped in stories of his own confabulations. Celebrating himself in all his delusions. Just rambling incoherently.
July 25, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Dementia is hitting hard tonight. Trapped in stories of his own confabulations. Celebrating himself in all his delusions. Just rambling incoherently.
“Sustained by what we have inherited from the past and what we witness, we will have the courage to resist and continue resisting in as yet unimaginable circumstances. We will learn how to wait in solidarity.”
-John Berger, Confabulations, "How to Resist A State of Forgetting"
#everynightapoem
-John Berger, Confabulations, "How to Resist A State of Forgetting"
#everynightapoem
January 16, 2026 at 11:25 PM
“Sustained by what we have inherited from the past and what we witness, we will have the courage to resist and continue resisting in as yet unimaginable circumstances. We will learn how to wait in solidarity.”
-John Berger, Confabulations, "How to Resist A State of Forgetting"
#everynightapoem
-John Berger, Confabulations, "How to Resist A State of Forgetting"
#everynightapoem
Explains all the confabulations issuing from the cave mouth.
September 24, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Explains all the confabulations issuing from the cave mouth.
Confabulations are still worryingly common across all of today's AI tools.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Confabulations are still worryingly common across all of today's AI tools.
Looking forward to critical confabulations in which the Nazis somehow magically turn out to have been the good guys.
June 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Looking forward to critical confabulations in which the Nazis somehow magically turn out to have been the good guys.
Reported for lying misinformation and confabulations
August 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Reported for lying misinformation and confabulations
Exhausting work by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social continues to correct the hallucinatory confabulations of crackpots. Thank you! Please follow Dr. Hotez to let him and others know science remains alive and well.
July 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Exhausting work by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social continues to correct the hallucinatory confabulations of crackpots. Thank you! Please follow Dr. Hotez to let him and others know science remains alive and well.
While NYT reporters are not supposed to be sharing their opinions on social media, I guess confabulations are OK.
May 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
While NYT reporters are not supposed to be sharing their opinions on social media, I guess confabulations are OK.
Welp. He just guaranteed he'll be out of a job real soon. Speaking truths that counter Trump's confabulations isn't allowed. Guess he didn't get the memo.
June 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Welp. He just guaranteed he'll be out of a job real soon. Speaking truths that counter Trump's confabulations isn't allowed. Guess he didn't get the memo.
I remember when we simply called this "broken" or "bad software" or "a faulty product" instead of inventing cute excuses for why the shit doesn't work as intended.
I'd expect any media outlet who cared about their audience to reject such terms.
I'd expect any media outlet who cared about their audience to reject such terms.
April 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I remember when we simply called this "broken" or "bad software" or "a faulty product" instead of inventing cute excuses for why the shit doesn't work as intended.
I'd expect any media outlet who cared about their audience to reject such terms.
I'd expect any media outlet who cared about their audience to reject such terms.
February 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I ran 80,000 confabulations and I was fabulous in all of them
November 5, 2024 at 11:39 PM
I ran 80,000 confabulations and I was fabulous in all of them