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What are AI hallucinations? Why AIs sometimes make things up

By Anna Choi, Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science, Cornell University
Katelyn Mei, Ph.D. Student in Information Science, University of Washington

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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