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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws (www.computerworld.com)

submitted 1 week ago by misk@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 64 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Beyond proving hallucinations were inevitable, the OpenAI research revealed that industry evaluation methods actively encouraged the problem. Analysis of popular benchmarks, including GPQA, MMLU-Pro, and SWE-bench, found nine out of 10 major evaluations used binary grading that penalized “I don’t know” responses while rewarding incorrect but confident answers.

“We argue that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty,” the researchers wrote.

I just wanna say I called this out nearly a year ago: https://lemmy.zip/comment/13916070

[–] misk@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

My guess they know the jig is up and they’re establishing a timeline for the future lawsuits.

„Your honour, we didn’t mislead the investors because we’ve only learned of this September 2025.”

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