The word 'lie' is problematic here because it anthropomorphizes AI behavior.
A lie implies:
Intentional deception
Knowledge of the truth
A deliberate choice to mislead
When AI systems confabulate or fabricate information, they're not 'lying' in this sense. They don't have beliefs about what's true or false, nor do they have intentions to deceive. They're generating statistically plausible text based on patterns in their training data.
This is the point everyone mostly misses -- internally inside the model, there is no difference between generating something that happens to correspond to the truth, and a "lie". It's all the same statistical generation, and all efforts in pushing AI right now are trying to increase the frequency with which the generations happen to correspond to reality.
The word 'lie' is problematic here because it anthropomorphizes AI behavior.
A lie implies:
Intentional deception
Knowledge of the truth
A deliberate choice to mislead
When AI systems confabulate or fabricate information, they're not 'lying' in this sense. They don't have beliefs about what's true or false, nor do they have intentions to deceive. They're generating statistically plausible text based on patterns in their training data.
This is the point everyone mostly misses -- internally inside the model, there is no difference between generating something that happens to correspond to the truth, and a "lie". It's all the same statistical generation, and all efforts in pushing AI right now are trying to increase the frequency with which the generations happen to correspond to reality.