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Why Does AI Make Things Up? The Hallucination Problem Explained

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Chady
Jun 16, 2026
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You ask ChatGPT for a peer-reviewed paper on a topic, and it gives you a title, journal name, and year—all completely fabricated. You ask for the API documentation of a real library, and it invents methods that don’t exist. You ask for a historical date, and it confidently gives you the wrong year.

This is a hallucination. And it’s not a bug you can patc…

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