The upside of AI hallucinations

ChatGPT is weird. It’s so smart, and yet it’s capable of being incredibly dumb. It’s also perfectly willing to completely make things up. And when it does, it sounds just as confident as when it’s not. None of this is fundamentally different than humans. Smart humans can be surprisingly dumb at times. People make stuff up. People can even make stuff up without realizing that they’re doing so. But…