That's Embarrassing: Why Frontier AI Still Makes Things Up, and What to Do About It
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Despite major advances, frontier AI models still hallucinate confidently in 2026 — inventing policies, fake legal citations, and even deleting production databases. This happens because models are trained to guess rather than abstain, and an internal "do I know this?" switch misfires on familiar-sounding words, releasing a built-in brake that normally prevents fabrication.
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