…the term hallucinations is subtly misleading. It suggests that the bad behavior is an aberration, a bug, when it’s actually a feature of the probabilistic pattern-matching mechanics of neural networks.
—Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
#ai#llms#llm #hallucinations

"Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations."
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

PS: Will this kind of slipshod practice decline on its own? Or does it require publicity and public shaming? I don't know. But I'm grateful to @retractionwatch for turning on its spotlight.

#AI#Hallucinations#Proofreading#Publishers#ScholComm #SpringerNature#SubtractedValue

Asked 5 different local AIs (not internet based nor connecting to the internet):

What is the average airspeed of a fully laden swallow?

And they attributed it to 3 novels: Alan Sillitoe's "The Lonely Voice"(which does not exist), Douglas Adams's "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and also the correct answer, the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

So as long as we're good with AI being 75% wrong, we're good! 😆

#llm #ai #hallucinations