Why a solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow
undefined 30, 2025
OpenAI’s latest paper explains why AI “hallucinations” are inevitable: language models predict words step by step, so errors accumulate, and even perfect training data can’t prevent them. Benchmarks worsen the issue by penalizing “I don’t know,” pushing AIs to always guess. OpenAI proposes confidence-based scoring to cut errors, but this would raise costs and frustrate users with frequent uncertainty. For now, business incentives favor fast, confident, but error-prone, answers.
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