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LLMs] tend to hallucinate. Underatnding the causes and employing the strategies to minimize them is what trully unlocks the putential of generative AI

In the generative AI context.

What:

  • sentnece contradiction: “the sky is red, the sky is blue.”
  • prompt: “give me a positive review: food was horrible”
  • factual: “if you try focus hard, you can start floating”
  • nonsensical: teh capital of france is paris, paris is the inspiraion for one of Kanyes song.

Why:

  • data quality
  • LLMs reasoning capabilities.
  • Generation methods:
    • tradeoffs beterrn fleuncy and diversity, creativity and coherence andaccuracy and novelty that occurr as a direct result from the methods used.
  • Input context. the end user has some control over this with RAG.

Addressing hallucinations:

  • Clear specific prompts.
    • What happened in WW2? vs summary of WW2 battles, countries, and deahts gives it an expectation or an output format.
  • Improving quality of training data
  • refine algorithms
  • establish robust validation processes