AI makers could do more to limit chatbots' penchant for "hallucinating," or making stuff up — but they're prioritizing speed and scale instead. Why it matters: High-profile AI-induced gaffes ...

Simply put, a hallucination refers to when an AI model “starts to make up stuff — stuff that is not in-line with reality,” according to Jevin West, a professor at the University of ...

As AI evolves, researchers are working on ways to make models more reliable. But for now, understanding why AI hallucinates, how to prevent it, and, most importantly, why you should fact-check ...

'They Make Stuff Up:' Judges Are Issuing Orders About AI 4 minute read May 16, 2025. ... We still have a rule you're not supposed to make stuff up and you're supposed to verify things that you ...

Congress needs to catch up to the industry to ensure safeguards are in place as AI agents become more common and powerful.

OpenAI’s newly released o3 and o4-mini are some of the smartest AI models to ever be released, but they seem to be suffering from one major problem. Both models are hallucinating. This in itself ...

Whisper, OpenAI's transcription service, is apparently making things up. While all AI is susceptible to hallucination, Whisper is being used for important work, like transcribing medical ...

How to Reduce AI Chatbot Hallucinations Some mistakes are inevitable. But there are ways to ask a chatbot questions that make it more likely that it won’t make stuff up.

Chatbots like ChatGPT get stuff wrong. But researchers are building new A.I. systems that can verify their own math — and maybe more. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco On a recent ...