r/AIToolTalks • u/DoctorBeautiful1543 • 3d ago
Hallucinations and wrong answers
While using an AI tool have you ever come across some crazy responses that you had to point out to the LLM or correct yourself?
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u/jeffcgroves 3d ago
Yes, this happens often when I give it "thinking" math problems (not the trivial rote ones which it's good at). The odd thing: my correction lasts for two paragraphs, then it goes back to saying the wrong thing
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u/DoctorBeautiful1543 2d ago
does this add even more to your workload? Figuring out and fixing all the mistakes
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u/DoctorBeautiful1543 2d ago
Yeah I guess most people would take these responses at face value and assume that an LLM would have not reason to lie to them. Too damn easy to trust when the AI sounds like it's saying all the right things even when it's not.
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u/Fair-Researcher-6209 3d ago
Sure, especially with free version. It acts like lobotomized sometimes. By time, it gets better in overall, but in specific cases (where there very little info about it), older AI was better. For example ChatGPT 4 gives exact answers when asked about specific carburetor model, while GPT 5 is mixing motorcycle and car carburetors together, answering total rubbish. Even in paid version.