ChatGPT keeps making stuff up — a new study explains the reason

The other day I was brainstorming with ChatGPT and all of a sudden it went into this long, fantasy story that had nothing to do with my queries. It was so ridiculous that it made me laugh. Lately, I haven’t seen mistakes like this as often with text prompts, but I still see them pretty regularly with image generation.

These random moments when a chatbot strays from the task are known as hallucinations. What’s odd is that the chatbot is so confident about the wrong answer it’s giving; one of the biggest…