“Runge Spikes” is still a metaphor, rather than a technically accurate description. Its strength is that it gets away from using a metaphor from human illness. Metaphors from human illness smuggle in an assumption that LLMs are faulty humans, rather than technology doing its thing.
I’ve argued for “hallucination” → “Runge Spikes”; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612517
“Runge Spikes” is still a metaphor, rather than a technically accurate description. Its strength is that it gets away from using a metaphor from human illness. Metaphors from human illness smuggle in an assumption that LLMs are faulty humans, rather than technology doing its thing.