Tag: Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs)

Concept image to explain how AI hallucinations occur when an AI model generates false or illogical information that isn't based on real data or events, but is presented as fact.

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Gary Smith
Date
July 1, 2026

Categorized
Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs), Law

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Anthropic settlement, Carriers vs. publishers, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Munich Google AI Overview decision (2026)}

Plagiarism and Defamation—Two More Bad Things LLMs Are Good At

_{The authors’ and publishers’ copyright claims against the chatbot developers are only one of the legal problems the industry faces} _{Gary Smith
July 1, 2026

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Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs), Law}

The LLMs’ hallucinations could end up getting them severely restricted in Europe, depending on the outcome of a recent legal challenge for defamation.

City skyline, shrouded in a thick layer of fog. Elevated aerial view reveals numerous high-rise buildings emerging from a dense cloud cover. A clear, pale blue sky is visible above the clouds

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Jeffrey Funk
Date
November 18, 2025

Categorized
Business and Finance, Economics, Large Language Models (LLMs)

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Ed Zitron, Featured, Graphical process units (GPUs), Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), OpenAI economics}

A Lack of Transparency Threatens AI — and the American Economy

_{Even the Wall Street Journal does not appear to understand the nature of the looming problems} _{Jeffrey Funk
November 18, 2025

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Business and Finance, Economics, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

AI software startups should be required to release audited numbers so that we can at least understand the current state of the AI economy.

Courtroom symbolizes law and authority through a judgment gavel

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Richard W. Stevens
Date
November 10, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Law

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AI and defamation, Chatbots and defamation, Featured, Frederick Riehl, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Libel law, Mark Walters, OpenAI and defamation, SAF v. Ferguson, Walters v. OpenAI}

Case Study: How Not to Sue AI for Libel

_{Richard W. Stevens
November 10, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Law}

I personally favor modernizing the civil laws against libel and defamation to take into account the type of injuries that chatbots can inflict.

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Doug Smith
Date
June 6, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs)

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Aza Raskin, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Jeremy Utley, McLuhanian transformation, Tristan Harris}

Big Tech’s Recent Big Admission: Chatbots Are Not Very Reliable

_{Here in Part 2, I discuss Stanford prof Jeremy Utley’s hype video in the context of that and other sobering facts} _{Doug Smith
June 6, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs)}

When using chatbots and other GenAI, keep the long-term goals of the developers in mind.

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Erik J. Larson
Date
November 21, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)

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Featured, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Language Models (how they work)}

From Data to Thoughts: Why Language Models Hallucinate

_{The limits of today’s language models and paths to real cognition} _{Erik J. Larson
November 21, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

We’ll need an architectural approach that can handle propositions—thoughts, judgments, reasoning structures—as first-order objects.

ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence conversational chat bot by open ai using machine learning, Generative AI

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News
Date
February 26, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Human exceptionalism

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Blind Spot (MIT 2024), Evan Thompson, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Marcelo Gleiser}

Astrophysicist: Don’t Say That Chatbots “Hallucinate”

_{Adam Frank points out that human-type “hallucination” is not at all what drives a chatbot to claim that the Russians sent bears into space} _{News
February 26, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Human exceptionalism}

Frank, fellow physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson argue in a new book that ignoring explicitly human experience is a blind spot for science

polar bear astronaut in space suit, generative ai

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Gary Smith
Date
January 15, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI Chatbot BARD, Bing, ChatGPT, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Internet Pollution — If You Tell a Lie Long Enough…

_{Large Language Models (chatbots) can generate falsehoods faster than humans can correct them. For example, they might say that the Soviets sent bears into space...} _{Gary Smith
January 15, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence}

Later, Copilot and other LLMs will be trained to say no bears have been sent into space but many thousands of other misstatements will fly under their radar.