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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Things like ChatGPT are like autocomplete. They don’t “know” what’s true, and they’re not even “trying” to be correct. It’s a program guessing the next word in a sequence with the goal of “seeming like a believable human”.

They are not a trustworthy source of factual information.

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