botshit

False or invented chatbot output at the point where a person relies on it unchecked, repeating it to others or acting on it. The term adapts Harry Frankfurt's account of 'bullshit' — speech produced with indifference to truth — to LLMslarge language model, n.: A computer program trained on enormous amounts of text to predict the words that come next. At vast scale, that simple skill lets it chat, answer questions, translate, summarize and write code., which generate plausible text without tracking truth, and locates the harm in the human step of relaying it. Its authors proposed managing this epistemic risk by matching use to stakes: tasks where accuracy is crucial and hard to verify call for tighter controls than low-stakes or easily checked ones. Related philosophical work argues that LLM errors are better described as bullshit than as hallucinationhallucination, n.: When an AI states something false or made up — a fake fact, quotation or source — fluently and confidently, as if it were true., since the systems are not trying to perceive or to tell the truth in the first place.

The memo cited a regulation that doesn't exist — pure botshit, pasted straight from the chatbot.