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“The firm’s owner explained that they had turned to AI to help compete with larger companies by providing new articles on a regular basis.”

If you cheap out and use free open source AI models, you’re going to get hallucinations.

They cheaped out. Then they were too lazy to fact check their articles. But “AI makes stuff up and inconveniences people” makes for a better headline.


25 posted on 02/08/2026 10:29:19 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: proust

If you cheap out and use free open source AI models, you’re going to get hallucinations.


Depends. There are open source models that are for specific domains, that probably work even better than the Frontier Models for certain things.

And there are plenty of patterns that can mitigate hallucinations.

I expect fairly soon they will find a fix for “content rot”.

We are still in the early stages of AI.

I predict in 10-years, there will be an LLM (or whatever replaces it), as a chip on your laptop, that will be more powerful than the most powerful LLM model today.


29 posted on 02/08/2026 10:45:02 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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