15. Hallucinations, or AI don’t do facts
Language models are completely unsuitable for use as information systems because of their pervasive ‘hallucinations’.
Summary
Large Language Models have a tendency to hallucinate and fabricate nonsense in ways that are hard to detect. This makes fact-checking and correcting the output very expensive and labour-intensive. These hallucinations appear in AI-generated summaries as well, which makes these systems unsuitable for many knowledge- and information-management tasks.
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Date
June 25, 2024
Topic
Intelligence Illusion
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