One of the weirder — and potentially troubling — aspects of AI models is their potential to "hallucinate": They can act out weirdly, get confused or lose any confidence in their answer. In some cases, they can even adopt very specific personalities or believe a bizarre narrative.
For a long time, this has been a bit of a mystery. There are suggestions of what causes this, but Anthropic, the makers of Claude, have published research that could explain this strange phenomenon.
