I've seen a bunch of smart angry people (respect! I'm one too) who are all grr argh about AI jargon terms like "intelligence" and "hallucination" and complain about how they're misnomers and misleading and scold other smart people whenever they encounter them online.
In my opinion as a poet and a programmer, the term "hallucination" is *not* a misnomer; it's a perfectly cromulent metaphor, a crisp illustration of a *defect* in the basic design and use of these tools, a software metaphor in the same vein as "bug" and "window" that have nothing to do with real insects or panes but nevertheless capture something important about how these maddeningly-complicated devices work, in a poetic way that helps our meat-minds tell true stories to each other using lies. (Human language is mostly metaphors, and all metaphors are lies, and all utterances are merely grunts and squeaks that stand in for imprecise and shifty ideas. We're all playing [Sprachspielen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_game_(philosophy)) with Wittgenstein.)
If you're worried that "intelligence" and "hallucination" lead people astray down the slippery slope of cyberpunk mysticism and chatbot sentience and "upload all the brains" futurist #utilitopianism, then I don't think you're giving your audience enough credit -- or on the flip side, giving them too much credit! Dumb people are gonna think dumb thoughts, no matter what terms you use, and smart people are gonna know the difference between metaphors and facts, once you take the time to explain it to them. Terminological perfectionism is a trap. (The hardest problem in CS is naming things.)
I mean it's not like people selecting "Save File" think a computer is heroically intentionally rescuing a folder full of paper documents from a burning cabinet, right? Except for Zoolander. It's just a metaphor, and in particular #hallucination *mitigates *#AI tech-bro hype by clearly naming a major flaw in the tech.
Diego Delso 