Summary of Confabulation: the Surprising Value Of Large Language Model Hallucinations, by Peiqi Sui et al.
Confabulation: The Surprising Value of Large Language Model Hallucinations
by Peiqi Sui, Eamon Duede, Sophie Wu, Richard Jean So
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a defense of large language model (LLM) hallucinations or “confabulations” as a potential resource instead of a categorically negative pitfall. The authors argue that measurable semantic characteristics of LLM confabulations mirror human propensity to utilize increased narrativity as a cognitive resource for sense-making and communication. They analyze popular hallucination benchmarks and reveal that hallucinated outputs display increased levels of narrativity and semantic coherence relative to veridical outputs, suggesting a positive capacity for coherent narrative-text generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper shows that LLMs can be useful in creating stories and text. Normally, we think it’s bad when they make things up. But the researchers found that the “made-up” parts have good storytelling qualities, like being more detailed and making sense. They looked at how well these models do on tests and found that they’re actually quite good at generating coherent narratives. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Hallucination » Large language model » Text generation
