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What are AI hallucinations? Why AIs sometimes make things up

Anna Choi, Cornell University and Katelyn Mei, University of Washington, The Conversation
Posted 3/21/25

When AI systems try to bridge gaps in their training data, the results can be wildly off the mark: fabrications and non sequiturs researchers call hallucinations.

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