Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up. I helped review this deep dive by Benj Edwards for Ars Technica into the hallucination/confabulation problem with ChatGPT and other LLMs, which is attracting increasing attention thanks to stories like the recent defamation complaints against ChatGPT. This article explains why this is happening and talks to various experts about potential solutions.
Recent articles
- LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling - 11th August 2025
- Qwen3-4B-Thinking: "This is art - pelicans don't ride bikes!" - 10th August 2025
- My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup - 9th August 2025