AI model collapse might make current hallucinations seem like a walk in the park

We've been worried about ChatGPT and other AI models hallucinating information since the day the former went viral. The infamous glue-on-pizza AI Overviews are the best example, but it's hardly the only one.

While all AI firms working on frontier models have tried to improve the accuracy of chatbots, they still hallucinate information. A new study looking at ChatGPT o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI's newest reasoning models, showed they tend to hallucinate even more than their predecessors.

That's why I always advise people to ask for sources if the chatbot they use doesn't provide them by default. You can verify the information the AI gives you on the spot. It's also why I find myself fighting with ChatGPT more frequently lately, as the AI sometimes fails to provide links or sources for its claims.

Now, if the sources the AI uses contain hallucinations themselves, that's a problem.

It turns out hallucinations might get worse rather than disappear. This is called AI model collapse, and it's a development risk we need to be aware of. Some AI models may get worse rather than better in the near future, and the consequences could be disastrous.

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