I resisted commenting on the "Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?" essay until I read it. It's undoubtedly a strange use-case for generative AI and intentional "confabulation," but instead of piling on, below are a couple of questions.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07722
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LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and social theory), the use...
