OPINION: From AI chatbots to Alaska resource megaprojects, we’re in the era of hallucination

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OPINION: From AI chatbots to Alaska resource megaprojects, we’re in the era of hallucination
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“Hallucination” comes from the Latin word “alucinari,” which can mean “to dream” or “to be deceived.” It seems like too many elected officials in Alaska fit that definition.

When I was much younger, hallucinations were an affliction of college students who figured drug-assisted education was worth a try. Not me . It wasn’t a statement of purity or anything; I just figured out it was more entertaining to stay sober and watch everyone else act stupid — and then tell them the stories the next day.

“I don’t think that there’s any model today that doesn’t suffer from some hallucination,” Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude 2, told The Associated Press last month. “Hallucination” comes from the Latin word “alucinari,” which can mean “to dream” or “to be deceived.” I got that from a book, not AI. Starting in the mid-17th century, hallucination referred to seeing an object when nothing was there. A mirage.

They imagine a North Slope natural gas pipeline in the future, selling the fuel to Japan and South Korea, missing the facts that liquefied natural gas consumption is in decline in both countries and that every competing gas project in the world is less expensive than Alaska.

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