AI RESEARCH
Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2511.07722v2 Announce Type: replace 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 of LLM hallucinations to "fill-in-the-gap" for omissions in archives due to social and political inequality, and reconstruct divergent yet evidence-bound narratives for history's ``hidden figures