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First published online August 2, 2024

One AI’s Hallucination is Another Human’s Writing Prompt: Notes From an Autoethnography Journey

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To catch an AI in a hallucination, the human must know the answer or know where to find the answer. This raises the question of what happens when both the AI and the Human don’t know the answer. What if the AI's output, the hallucination, was its superpower? Does the ‘prompt and response’ exchange between AI and Human become a discussion between two entities searching at the edges of understanding for an answer?

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Ralph Mercer is an Technology Culturalist investigating the habitus of the futures. He is an Adjunct Fellow School of Law and Society at UniSC.

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Article first published online: August 2, 2024
Issue published: March 2024

Keywords

  1. technology
  2. AI
  3. dyslexia
  4. creativity
  5. writing
  6. futures

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Ralph Mercer, Adjunct Fellow School of Law and Society at UniSC, 90 Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556, Australia. Email: mercer.ralph@gmail.com

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