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GreatGazoo

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4. All of AI output is hallucination

Reply to dgauss (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 09:03 AM

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It is a machine trying to predict what words in what order you will find acceptable or entertaining. It does not think or reason or contextualize. It is 54% accurate (basically coin flip) on prompts for which it was not fed answers and still only 92% accurate when it was given the answer. The majority of its input comes from scraping Reddit and about 40% of Reddit is bots so AI is turbo charging its insanity; blowing smoke up its own behind.

Easily and regularly manipulated:
https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipulate-chatgpt-and-google-ai-search/

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AI hallucination or just WTF??? [View all] dgauss Friday OP

I gave it to Gemini Tasmanian Devil Friday #1

Thanks, that makes sense. dgauss Friday #2

I'm glad something does. FadedMullet Friday #3

All of AI output is hallucination GreatGazoo Friday #4