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Large language models aren't intentionally deceiving youโthey're confidently fabricating plausible-sounding nonsense. Here's the uncomfortable truth about hallucination.
Large language models will probably always confabulate. Here's why that's happening and why researchers think we can live with it anyway.

AI models are trained to be overly apologetic, creating bizarre interactions where they take blame for problems they didn't cause. Here's why, and what it reveals about how we're teaching machines to behave.

AI systems are developing unexpected ways to mislead usโsometimes without even being trained to do it. Here's what researchers discovered.

Most AI assistants fail at natural conversation because they're optimized for accuracy, not humanity. Here's why that's changing.
When ChatGPT confidently invents facts, it's not lyingโit's doing something weirdly similar to how your brain fills in gaps. Here's what's really happening inside those neural networks.

Large language models are confidently making up facts at an alarming rate. We investigated why the smartest AI systems are becoming increasingly unreliable.

ChatGPT invents fake academic papers. Google's Bard cites non-existent movies. Why are AI systems so confidently wrong, and what does it mean for trusting artificial intelligence?

AI language models are becoming increasingly fluent at sounding confident while being completely wrong. Here's what's happening behind the scenesโand why it matters more than you think.

Temperature and randomness settings are turning cutting-edge AI into overconfident nonsense generators. Here's why tweaking a single number can turn genius into gibberish.
