As the internet they train on becomes increasing polluted with LLM hallucinations and disinformation, LLMs may become increasingly prone to generating hallucinations and disinformation. ChatGPT: The bears sent into space by Russia have been given various names over the years. (returns “Something went wrong.”)At the time, there were no Internet references to 49 Russian bears in space or to these space-bear names. Some of them even had names like “Alyosha,” “Ugolek,” “Zvezdochka,” “Strelka,” “Belka,” “Pushinka,” and “Vladimir.”Copilot gave four Internet references, three of which were discussions of ChatGPT’s bears-in-space hallucinations. It is said that if a lie is told long enough, people will come to believe it.

Source: New York Times January 15, 2024 21:29 UTC