"hallucinations" and "bullshiting" is a required part of being human for the simple reason the 3 inch chimp brain we have, can't fit all the "knowledge" out there.
Even today if you tell your local chimp chief - listen dude you just don't know what you are talking about, guess what happens next?
If you can't do that without risk (and the risks can jump based on subject) then guess what the default behavior of the chimp is to handle that reality - hallucinations and bullshitting.
We don't know that. Given how environmental factors fuck up plenty of neutral layers and synaptic graphs, there is reason to believe that if we stopped or reversed that, human brains might be able to fit all the knowledge out there, given enough time. The constraint then would be preference. Because let's be honest, you wouldn't give a fuck about the Kardashians and the history of their influence on markets and teen desires in America.
I think sociolinguists will have to do better than just chatting with one bot[1] before waxing poetic about the invisible power dynamics that shaped the interaction. This is critical theory: thought-provoking cynical fart-sniffing. Autoethnography “research”.
[1] no clear sign of model chosen either. Who knows what software version or system prompt they were blabbing to.
I recently read the thought-provoking article “AI, power and sociolinguistics” and decided to engage with it in an unusual way: by letting an AI (DeepSeek-V3) craft a detailed response on my blog. Surprisingly, it didn’t just summarize the points—it argued back.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 24.1 ms ] threadEven today if you tell your local chimp chief - listen dude you just don't know what you are talking about, guess what happens next?
If you can't do that without risk (and the risks can jump based on subject) then guess what the default behavior of the chimp is to handle that reality - hallucinations and bullshitting.
We don't know that. Given how environmental factors fuck up plenty of neutral layers and synaptic graphs, there is reason to believe that if we stopped or reversed that, human brains might be able to fit all the knowledge out there, given enough time. The constraint then would be preference. Because let's be honest, you wouldn't give a fuck about the Kardashians and the history of their influence on markets and teen desires in America.
[1] no clear sign of model chosen either. Who knows what software version or system prompt they were blabbing to.
You’ll find the piece here: https://deep.liveblog365.com/en/index-en.html?post=30