#AIHallucinations

2025-12-09

Scientific American: AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals. “OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and other models are befuddling students, researchers and archivists by generating ‘incorrect or fabricated archival references,’ according to the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross], which runs some of the world’s most used research […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/09/scientific-american-ai-slop-is-spurring-record-requests-for-imaginary-journals/

eicker.news ᳇ tech newstechnews@eicker.news
2025-12-07

#Amazon is leveraging #automatedreasoning, a form of #AI based on #formallogic, to address the issue of #AIhallucinations. This approach uses #mathematicalcertainty to verify the accuracy of #generativeAI, particularly in the context of #AIagents. By combining the flexibility with the reliability, fastcompany.com/91446331/amazo #tech #media #news

2025-12-06

Mashable: The 3 biggest AI fails of 2025 — Friend, imaginary summer reading lists, and so many hallucinations. “Generative AI could have written this introduction, but there’s a good chance it would have started hallucinating. Hallucination, which Google failed to mention in its AI-filled 2025 keynote, led to many, many AI fails in 2025. But it wasn’t the only factor. Below, please enjoy our […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/06/mashable-the-3-biggest-ai-fails-of-2025-friend-imaginary-summer-reading-lists-and-so-many-hallucinations/

2025-11-26

Search Engine Land: Google and AI slop are ruining Thanksgiving for food bloggers. “Food bloggers say this Thanksgiving is a breaking point. Google Search and AI Overviews, powered by Gemini 3, are rewriting recipes, stealing clicks, and in some cases serving dangerously wrong cooking instructions, Bloomberg reported.” In 2003 I made a Google Custom Search Engine called Cookin’ With Google. It […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/26/search-engine-land-google-and-ai-slop-are-ruining-thanksgiving-for-food-bloggers/

2025-11-24

Most RAG hallucination detectors fail on real-world tasks, leaving AI systems vulnerable to confident errors that can become costly in production. hackernoon.com/air-canada-lost #aihallucinations

2025-11-22

The Post (New Zealand): Lunchtime read: US drug dealer branded a killer by AI sues Google . “[James] Keene’s lawsuit is one of at least six complaints that have been filed so far in the US by Americans who say they have been defamed by AI, according to the Stanford law professor Eugene Volokh. The alleged libels are attributed to an occasional tendency by AI large language models to suffer […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/22/lunchtime-read-us-drug-dealer-branded-a-killer-by-ai-sues-google-the-post/

2025-11-21

PsyPost: Study finds nearly two-thirds of AI-generated citations are fabricated or contain errors. “The study, published in JMIR Mental Health, found that large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o frequently generate fabricated or inaccurate bibliographic citations, with these errors becoming more common when the AI is prompted on less familiar or highly specialized topics.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/21/psypost-study-finds-nearly-two-thirds-of-ai-generated-citations-are-fabricated-or-contain-errors/

Dash Removerdashremover
2025-11-20

Gemini didn’t refuse to believe it was 2025. It just wasn’t fine-tuned to accept the passage of time, unlike my uncle Gary, who still thinks Coldplay is edgy. 🤖🧠🗓️

2025-11-18

Reuters: Google asks court to dismiss conservative influencer’s AI defamation lawsuit. “Google on Monday asked a Delaware state court to dismiss conservative influencer Robby Starbuck’s allegations that its artificial intelligence systems defamed ​him by falsely calling him epithets including a ‘child rapist,’ ‘serial sexual abuser’ and ‘shooter.'”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/reuters-google-asks-court-to-dismiss-conservative-influencers-ai-defamation-lawsuit/

Ars Technica Newsarstechnica@c.im
2025-11-11
2025-11-11

'AI Slop' in #Court Filings: #Lawyers Keep Citing Fake AI-Hallucinated Cases

"According to court filings and interviews with lawyers and scholars, the legal profession in recent months has increasingly become a hotbed for #AI blunders," reports the New York Times:
#AiSlop #aihallucinations #hallucinations #artificialintelligence

yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/0

2025-11-06

AZ Big Media: How AI-driven hallucinatory filings are impacting Arizona courts. “Brown v. Colvin. Wofford v. Berryhill. Hobbs v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration. Each citation bore a case number and the initials of a judge in the federal court for the District of Arizona. All of those judges exist. The three cases do not.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/az-big-media-how-ai-driven-hallucinatory-filings-are-impacting-arizona-courts/

2025-11-06

BBC: MP wants Elon Musk’s chatbot shut down over claim he enabled grooming gangs. “An MP has called for Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to be shut down after it called him a ‘rape enabler’. The Grok chatbot made the post on X about SNP MP Pete Wishart, after a user asked it to comment on the member’s opinion on whether there should be an inquiry into grooming gangs in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/bbc-mp-wants-elon-musks-chatbot-shut-down-over-claim-he-enabled-grooming-gangs/

Nico @ Univentionngulden@univention.social
2025-10-28

Because I mentioned several times during conversations at the conference, here's the link to the article about AI systems often misinterpreting news content.

heise.de/en/news/European-Broa

#writethedocs #writethedocsberlin #writethedocsberlin2025 #artificalintelligence #aihallucinations

2025-10-28

Android Authority: Google Home is hallucinating fictional identities. “According to a post on the r/googlehome subreddit, a user’s Nest camera described an activity summary saying ‘Michael was seen taking out the trash,’ even though no one by that name lives there. When the user asked about it, Google’s assistant reportedly replied that its camera ‘can identify faces even if you haven’t […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/28/android-authority-google-home-is-hallucinating-fictional-identities/

2025-10-19
What are AI Hallucinations and why are they screwing up my searches? Some thoughts on why they happen and why they may not be as bad you think: https://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/ai-hallucinations #aihallucinations #AI #artificialintelligence
Martin Bihlmartinbihl
2025-10-19

What are AI Hallucinations and why are they screwing up my searches? Some thoughts on why they happen and why they may not be as bad you think: martinbihl.com/business-thinki

2025-10-17

Stanford Law School: Who’s Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court?. “A recent 404 Media article about lawyers’ use of AI drew my attention to a database of AI Hallucination Cases compiled and maintained by Damien Charlotin, a French lawyer and scholar. … Using the database, I analyzed 114 cases from U.S. courts where, according to either opposing counsel and/or the court’s own […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/17/stanford-law-school-whos-submitting-ai-tainted-filings-in-court/

Dash Removerdashremover
2025-10-15

“Your Honor, my client pleads not guilty on the grounds that GPT said it was fine.”

We’ve officially entered the AI-Gary Busey defense era. 🧠📉

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