[Zondartul]

You can say "Bullshit". LLMs bullshit all the time. Talk without regard to the truth or falsity of statements. It also doesn't pressupose that the trueness is known, nir deny it, so it should satisfy both camps; unlike hallucination which implies that truth and fiction are separate.

I wonder if there is some sort of transition between recalling declarative facts (some of which have been shown to be decodable from activations) on one hand and completing the sentence with the most fitting word on the other hand. The dream that "hallucination" can be eliminated requires that the two states be separable, yet it is not evident to me that these "facts" are at all accessible without a sentence to complete.