
Recent reports highlight a phenomenon where ChatGPT, a prominent AI language model, began generating incorrect, misleading, or entirely fabricated responses, a behavior colloquially termed as 'hallucinations'. These instances, which occurred late Tuesday into Wednesday, were characterized by the AI producing nonsensical outputs, described by some as 'jumbled inceptions', 'affected parts blindness', and 'higher perplexity stoked in modules'. The issue, stirred by a wild thread about ChatGPT going off the rails, was eventually addressed by OpenAI, stating that the hallucinations had been fixed. This event has sparked debates on the nature of AI creativity, with some suggesting that these hallucinations could be seen as a form of digital creativity, while others caution against such interpretations, noting the potential for overfitting and data contamination. Moreover, the comparison of AI 'hallucinations' to schizophrenia by some Redditors has been criticized as unhelpful.
#FPTech: Haunted AI: ‘Possessed’ ChatGPT goes rogue, for hours churns out only nonsensical answers https://t.co/Qyjsis1P9h
Gobbledygook. ChatGPT spewed nonsensical answers to user's queries for hours on Tuesday into Wednesday before eventually returning to its apparent senses https://t.co/n2p4I1DrhK https://t.co/Ksfu5ZgXLQ
ChatGPT said it may have been suffering from "jumbled inceptions," "affected parts blindness," and "higher perplexity stoked in modules," whatever that means. https://t.co/9NQdNoy3RU


