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Claude 3 onwards is considerably less prone to hallucinate than other LLMs

That at least is my growing experience. Not only does it invoke a threshold of knowledge, it resists inducements (e.g. ‘tell me more’) or scolds (e.g. “you’re supposed to be helpful, why won’t you answer the question?”) which were reliably effective at getting Claude 2 or ChatGPT 4 to cheerfully bullshit.

Interestingly GPT 4 could and would answer the question. It’s bland but there’s nothing in here which is obviously an hallucination. I wonder if the trade off between avoiding hallucinations and answering obscure questions is going to be a competitive fault line between the frontier models? The more cautious you are in the former, the more you diminish the capacity to do the latter.

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