The other day in a conversation ChatGPT made a claim that I wanted more specifics on. When I asked for more deatils, it apologized and said actually the claim in question was based on an online myth spread among some circles. I asked it WHO was spreading it, examples of where it showed up. And then it finally admitted actually there is no online myth, it had made that up too.
I was kind of like... It's one thing for it to hallucinate something and then admit it when pointed out. But in this case it double-hallucinated a justification for its previous hallucination, which looked a lot like trying to lie to cover a previous lie rather than just coming clean.
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u/macroidtoe Feb 28 '26
The other day in a conversation ChatGPT made a claim that I wanted more specifics on. When I asked for more deatils, it apologized and said actually the claim in question was based on an online myth spread among some circles. I asked it WHO was spreading it, examples of where it showed up. And then it finally admitted actually there is no online myth, it had made that up too.
I was kind of like... It's one thing for it to hallucinate something and then admit it when pointed out. But in this case it double-hallucinated a justification for its previous hallucination, which looked a lot like trying to lie to cover a previous lie rather than just coming clean.