bullshitting

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Does AI-safety/interpretability literature have a specific name and mechanism for plausible-sounding fabricated intermediate claims — and does it explain why two independent generations converge on the same one?

capture promoted 2026-10-31 · ai-safety, interpretability, hallucination, fabrication, correlated-errors
Citation-specific 'fabricated snippets' and reasoning-specific 'bullshitting' remain separately named, unconnected mechanisms in the literature

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · ai-safety, interpretability, hallucination, fabrication, citation-hallucination