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Sounding right vs. being true

It only picks a likely next character. It never checks whether it is true

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Characters 60 chars · Temperature 0.8

Believable, but made up

Look again at the text from the very start. It sounds like a fairy tale, but it is not in any of the 40 stories. Sometimes characters from different stories are even mixed together. The AI only picks a likely next character. It never checks whether what it says is true.

Text written by the AI: Once upon a time. ⏎ ⏎ He was down up began to his hands. He walked out he did n

Why?This is also why chatbots sometimes say believable things that are false. It happens even at temperature 0. So always double-check important facts with a trustworthy source.

Learn moreWhen an AI makes up false things that sound believable, it is called hallucination.

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Wikipedia: Hallucination (artificial intelligence)

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A small AI (a character-level language model with 62,652 dials) was really trained on 40 fairy tales and fables retold for this project (about 376,021 characters), and every number here was calculated by that AI. It is a tiny model for learning; real chatbots are far bigger.