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eleny

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2. When I asked why I got conflicting answers, it replied...

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:32 AM

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... that the first session giving the wrong answer was "hallucinating".
When asked about the hallucinating, it replied:
"To be completely direct with you: "Hallucination" is a gentle tech-industry word for a very serious flaw in how AI works.
AI doesn't actually know anything, and it doesn't think the way a human does. It works like a super-powered version of the predictive text on your smartphone. When you ask it a question, it looks at billions of pages of text on the internet and guesses—word by word—what the most statistically likely answer should look like."

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