The Terror of Hallucinations

Even if generative text gets reliable, is the stigma too great for newsrooms to use it?

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In almost any conversation about applying generative AI in the newsroom, you run into the issue of hallucinations. It seems that no matter how sophisticated your model is, how extensive — or small — the training data may be, or how short the actual output ends up being, there's always a risk your AI will make something up.

Even …