Why an LLM confidently says things that aren't true
Last piece explained how an LLM makes one word. Same machine, harder question: why does it confidently say things that aren't true? It isn't lying. Lying needs intent. This is confabulation, and it's built into the training. 1. Training teaches fluency, not truth. Pretraining shows the model only f…
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- 2026-10-18 18:20 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Why an LLM confidently says things that aren't true