How ChatGPT and other AI chatbots answer your question
AI hallucinations: why a chatbot invents things and sounds sure
An AI chatbot can name a book and an author that do not exist. It says this in the same calm way as the true things it says. Why do chatbots invent things, and why do they sound so sure?
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You asked which book says to check the soil. No book is named in your chat. Still, the chatbot gives a title and an author, as calmly as before. You go looking for the book.
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No library has it, no bookshop sells it. Roots Before Rain does not exist, and neither does Mara Tavrennick.
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