Language models have been conditioned to hazard wild guesses instead of admitting ignorance, a study has found

The company behind ChatGPT has addressed the persistent problem of Artificial Intelligence models’ generating plausible but false statements that it calls “hallucinations” .

In a statement on Friday, OpenAI explained that models are typically encouraged to hazard a guess, however improbable, as opposed to acknowledging that they cannot answer a question.

The issue is attributable to the core principles underlying “standard training and evaluation procedures,” the company added.

OpenAI has revealed that the instances where language…

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