LLMs haven’t learned to lie. They only speak
LLMs hallucinate — everyone has seen what it looks like. The model reports, confidently and coherently, with the right intonation and terminology, something that isn't there. Engineers treat this as a bug: one being fixed, one about to be fixed.It won't be. This is not a technical fault but an inherent property of language, which the machine has made visible.Language does not need realityLanguage is a unique system precisely in this: it emerges from reality, yet needs no reality for its own coherence.The word-as-gesture and the word-about-a-gesture are built the same way. From inside language they are indistinguishable. "I lifted a stone" and "I lifted the sky" are grammatically equal; what tells them apart is the consequence — the response of whatever doesn't care how it is described: the stone, the hand, the weight. Inside language there is no filter and never was; the check against reality is always performed from outside.
