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  • I mean lot of stuff is written in forums and social media, where people hallucinate. Or even in real life if you talk to one. Its normal for a human to pick up something in their life, later talk about it as a fact, regardless of where they learned it (tv, forum, videogame, school). Hallucinations are part of our brain.

    Sometimes being aware of the hallucination issue is still a hallucination. Sometimes we are also aware of the hallucination an Ai makes, because its obvious or we can check it. And also there are Ai chatbots who “talk” and phrase in a more human natural sounding way. Not all of them sound obvious robotic.

    Just for the record, I’m skeptical of Ai technology… not biggest fan. Please don’t fork me. :D


  • To be fair, humans tend to hallucinate too.

    I asked a local Ai chatbot DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Quen-14B:

    Does Ai hallucinate and is it getting worse? Answer in one paragraph.

    Answer:

    AI does exhibit a form of “hallucination” where it generates plausible but incorrect information, particularly when faced with uncertainty or creative prompts beyond its training scope. This phenomenon occurs as AI constructs logical-sounding answers using available data, even if those answers aren’t accurate. While advancements in AI make these hallucinations more convincing and harder to detect due to improved coherence, the issue isn’t worsening in severity but rather evolving in how it presents itself.














  • Thunderbird doesn’t have the same annoying stuff of Firefox, as far as I know at least. However, there is no guarantee that Mozilla wouldn’t force this on Thunderbird someday, even if Thunderbird operates mostly independent.

    By switching to another client, I didn’t mean you can takeover your offline accounts and data to another client. Just meaning you can switch, as your mail accounts are not bound to any mail client. Unlike something like Photoshop in example, that was what I meant. There is fork Betterbird, in case Thunderbird decides to go wild (we can’t know that for sure). I did not look into it much, but I’m sure alternative forks that are compatible to the current Thunderbird profile (for import) will be available.


  • Thunderbird has their own finances and operates quite independent from Mozilla. They make more money than any other project under Mozilla’s banner. Thunderbird is quite successful. And even if one day a problem occurs, one could still use a fork or switch to a different mail client. But I don’t see any problem coming, unlike with Firefox in example.