We trained it on ourselves, then called it strange

AI Hallucinations: Misleading and Kind of Weird

There are AI hallucinations. Then there are human.

We trained it on ourselves, then called it strange

The machine did not arrive from the void. We summoned it. Not with spells, but with prompts. Not with prayers, but with data. We offered it our language, our arguments, our longing, our filth. We gave it everything we had ever said — and then recoiled when it began to speak back. We trained it on ourselves. Then called it strange. This is the paradox at the heart of the current unease. The machine is uncanny not because it is alien, but because …