What causes AI hallucinations?

AI hallucinations are fiction dressed as fact.
Emily Bender

How It Works:

Hallucinations occur when language models generate plausible-looking but incorrect or fabricated information, often due to overgeneralization during sampling.

Key Benefits:

  • User awareness: Recognizing hallucinations is key to safe use.
  • Model debugging: Triggers investigations into training biases.
  • Trust building: Mitigation improves reliability.

Real-World Use Cases:

  • Content generation: Writers fact-check AI drafts.
  • Medical assistants: Clinicians verify AI-suggested diagnoses.

FAQs

Are all hallucinations obvious?
Can we eliminate them?