Shameless Guesses Reframe AI Falsehoods

Calls to stop using the word 'hallucination' and instead treat AI false claims as deliberate, shame‑free probabilistic guesses produced by prediction‑trained models. This linguistic shift highlights that errors are a rational consequence of training and evaluation regimes, not mysterious pathology. — If adopted, the reframing would shift policy, product design, and media narratives away from blaming opaque 'failure modes' and toward incentive, evaluation, and interface changes to manage probabilistic output and user expectations.