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> Hallucinations are incredibly fucking overrated as a problem.

> Hallucinations are incredibly fucking overrated as a problem. They are a consequence of the LLM in question not having a good enough internal model of its own knowledge, which is downstream from how they're trained. Plenty of things could be done to improve on that - and there is no fundamental limitation that would prevent LLMs from matching human hallucination rates - which are significantly above zero. Why is there no fundamental limitation that would prevent LLMs from matching human hallucination rates? I'd like to hear more about how you arrived at that conclusion.

Posted by maplethorpe on Oct 13, 2025, 5:40 AM

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> Hallucinations are incredibly fucking overrated as a problem.

maplethorpeOct 13, 2025, 5:40 AM

> Hallucinations are incredibly fucking overrated as a problem. They are a consequence of the LLM in question not having a good enough internal model of its own knowledge, which is downstream from how they're trained. Plenty of things could be done to improve on that - and there is no fundamental limitation that would prevent LLMs from matching human hallucination rates - which are significantly above zero. Why is there no fundamental limitation that would prevent LLMs from matching human hallucination rates? I'd like to hear more about how you arrived at that conclusion.

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