Why AI’s hallucinations are like the illusions of narcissism | Psyche Ideas
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Unable to handle uncertainty, AI mimics the narcissistic compulsion to fill voids with plausible but false narratives
It is well known that artificial intelligence systems ‘hallucinate’, generating confident but false information in response even to straightforward searches. From inventing criminal histories for law-abiding citizens and fabricating case law and policy changes, to making factual errors in solving mathematical problems, hallucinations are a persistent, and sometimes harmful, menace. But unlike most wrinkles in the system that get ironed out over time, AI hallucinations are getting worse. To understand why they persist, it helps to see them not as acts of deception, but as predictable…
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