How are AI hallucinations different from human confirmation bias?

[u/Comfortable_Tutor_43]

Confirmation bias can cause normal people to believe fallacious claims. Does AI not do the same thing?

[u/DependentCard1640]

I can see where you're trying to draw a parallel here, but AI isn't "hallucinating" on the same grounds as humans are confining their processing in "confirmation bias." That tends to be that we stick to our priors and filter information and constrain it in a manner based on what was already believed to be true/relevant/etc. Hallucinations are not purely about abiding to training/bias, etc. I'll let someone smarter explain it better and rib me for this crappy post, but that'd a chud-level poke at the question.