Why AI Keeps Making Stuff Up—And How to Fix It

Why does GPT sometimes hallucinate like a tech bro on an ayahuasca bender? According to a new OpenAI’s research paper, Why Language Models Hallucinate, the root of hallucinations isn’t a mysterious glitch but a structural feature of how these systems are optimized. Simply put, LLMS would rather lie than admit they don't know an answer. LLMs learn by predicting the most likely next word, given mountains of training text. In most settings, that means sounding fluent matters more than being right....