eli5 : Why does ai like ChatGPT or Llama 3 make things up and fabricate answers?

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I asked it for a list of restaurants in my area using google maps and it said there is a restaurant (Mug and Bean) in my area and even used a real address but this restaurant is not in my town. Its only in a neighboring town with a different street address

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They aren’t trying to return a true answer. They are trying to return a likely answer based on the information it has and how it’s seen other people respond to similar questions. Now those are often right answers because that’s how people generally answer such questions in the data it has seen. But there is no guarantee.

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