alt Hacker News> I don't entirely understand your extreme optimism towards LLMs given this proclivity for hallucination
Simply because I don't see hallucinations as a permanent problem. I see that models keep improving more and more in this regard, and I don't see why the hallucination rate can't be abirtrarily reduced with further improvements to the architecture. When I ask Claude about obscure topics, it correctly replies "I don't know", where past models would have hallucinated an answer. When I use GPT 5.2-thinking for my ML research job, I pretty much never encounter hallucinations.
Hahah, well you working in the field probably explains your optimism more than your words! If you pretty much never encounter hallucinations with GPT then you're probably dealing with it on topics where there's less of a right or wrong answer. I encounter them literally every single time I start trying to work out a technical problem with it.