My professor friend, who said to say 'hi' to Mastodon, just sent me this
"I just graded a student's answers that sound like hallucinating AI. It isn't — it really was his own writing, but made really nice sentences about... something else, vaguely connected to the question but not really.
OMG- AI hallucinations are just students who haven't studied or taken the course, showing up for the exam and trying to say things that sound true."
Sasha
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