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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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Erik J. Larson
Date
June 18, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Reasoning Models (LRMs)

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Ask Martin chatbot, Confabulation (AI), Emily Bender, Martin Seligman, Stochastic parrots concept}

Just When Human Reason is Most Productive — AI Makes Things Up

_{In Part 2, we see how the ability to handle only one type of truth limits AI. AI models are fundamentally untethered from reality} _{Erik J. Larson
June 18, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Reasoning Models (LRMs)}

The gap between human and machine ways of knowing can be thought of as the correspondence horizon. When AI crosses that, it produces plausible bullshit. Read More ›

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Erik J. Larson
Date
June 18, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), Philosophy

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Ask Martin chatbot, Coherence truth, Correspondence truth, Featured, Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology, Steven Pinker, Tim Beck}

Why AI Breaks Down Where Human Creativity Begins

_{Part 1: AI can handle statements that are internally coherent but that is not the same thing as correspondence with reality} _{Erik J. Larson
June 18, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), Philosophy}

In short, philosophers distinguish between two fundamental theories of truth: correspondence and coherence, and AI does only coherence. Read More ›