"It's 2026 and people still excuse AI hallucination because humans lie too," says ML author Burkov
burkov · x · 2026-10-10
ML author Andriy Burkov criticizes those who excuse hallucinating AI programs on the grounds that "humans lie too," calling the argument absurd. The debate: defenders liken hallucination to human fallibility; critics insist mass confident false outputs from models are categorically different and no excuse.
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