Context - Within weeks of Chat-GPT’s public release, the fact that chatbots make plausible and realistic sounding stuff up emerged. The AI scientists knew about the phenomenon, which they called “hallucinations”. It appears to be baked into the technology. LLMs don’t copy, store and retrieve data. Instead, they are trained on incomprehensibly large data sets to predict sequences of content and can produce remarkable content, especially conversational texts. But they all make stuff up, and there is an increasingly steady stream of media reports of AI hallucinations being found in a wide range...