[INDOLOGY] AI hallucinations

[Mauricio Najarro]

Just in case people find it useful, here’s an important and well-known critique of LLMs from people currently working and thinking carefully about all this: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

Mauricio 

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> On Sep 21, 2025, at 11:47 AM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Csaba Dezso wrote:
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>> My question to the AI savvies among us would be: is confabulation / hallucination an integral and therefore essentially ineliminable feature of LLM? 
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> I have an extremely limited knowledge and experience  of AI but my understanding of LLM's is that they work by choosing the next most statistically  likely word in their answer (again I'm not exactly clear how they determine that),  So there answers aren't based on any kind of reasoning. 
> Harry Spier
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