Understanding AI Hallucinations: Causes and Challenges
TL;DR
A new OpenAI study explores why large language models like GPT-5 hallucinate, attributing it partly to training focus on next-word prediction and current evaluation methods that incentivize guessing. The researchers suggest updating evaluation metrics to penalize confident errors and discourage guessing, aiming to reduce hallucinations.
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