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There is actually an acknowledged term of art for this: "bullshit".

Summary from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit

> statements produced without particular concern for truth, clarity, or meaning, distinguishing "bullshit" from a deliberate, manipulative lie intended to subvert the truth

It's a perfect fit for how LLMs treat "truth": they don't know so that can't care.




I’m imagining your comment read by George Carlin … if only he were still here to play with this. You know he would.


Elwood: What was I gonna do? Take away your only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bullshitting you.

Jake: You lied to me.

Elwood: Wasn't lies, it was just... bullshit.




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