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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Because large language models don’t really understand what the “truth” is.

They know how to build human-readable sentences, and they know how to scour the internet for data.

When you ask them a question, they will attempt to build an appropriate human-readable answer, and will check the internet (and their own database, if any) to supply specific details to base the sentence(s) around.

At no point in this process does it do any kind of checking that what it’s saying is actually *true*.

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