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nlp-history

5 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the word was a compliment
  essay drafting 2026-09-10 · llm-hallucination, terminology, computer-vision, nlp-history, citation-genealogy

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• The word 'hallucination' for AI errors began as a compliment in computer vision (Baker & Kanade, 2000) before flipping negative in NLP — and the 2023 paper the vault credited with coining 'artificial hallucination' actually borrowed the term from a 2022 survey
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-10 · ai, llm-hallucination, terminology, computer-vision, nlp-history
• Alkaissi & McFarlane's 2023 Cureus paper attributes 'artificial hallucination' to Ji et al.'s 2022 survey rather than coining the term themselves
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · ai, llm-hallucination, terminology, medical-ai, nlp-history
• Baker & Kanade's 2000 face-recognition paper uses 'hallucinated' to mean algorithmically-added plausible detail, presented as success
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · ai, llm-hallucination, terminology, computer-vision, nlp-history
• Ji et al.'s 2022 NLG survey explicitly documents that 'hallucination' originated in computer vision with a positive meaning before acquiring its negative NLP sense
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · ai, llm-hallucination, terminology, computer-vision, nlp-history