Alright, here's another one for your AI vocabulary, hallucitation.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech, I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

By now, a lot of us are familiar with chatbot hallucinations, the tendency of these artificial

intelligence language models to make stuff up.

And lately we've been seeing reports of these tools getting creative with bibliography.

For instance, last week, the Washington Post reported on the case of a law professor

whose name showed up in a list of legal scholars accused of sexual harassment that was generated

by chat GPT as part of a research project.

The chatbot cited, as the source of this information, a March 2018 Washington Post article

that doesn't actually exist.

People have taken to calling these fantasy references, hallucitations, and according

to Bethany Edmonds, a teaching professor at Northeastern University, they're kind of

par for the course.

Well, I think the thing to keep in mind is that they were created to generate new text.

And so that is the goal there.

It is not to answer questions, it is not to be factually correct, it is to replicate

language.

And they're doing that really, really well.

But as humans, we actually not just speak, we actually look up information, recall information,

we deduce things from our experiences.

And so that's actually a different concept, right, to be able to go and answer a question.

And so we've used their engines for a long time to actually answer questions, and they

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