<p>AI can make mistakes – and AI chatbots like ChatGPT warn you about that whenever you ask them anything.</p><p>These mistakes sometimes involve making up entirely fictitious, factually false statements known as “hallucinations”.</p><p>Whether these hallucinations matter depends on what you’re using AI for, and whether they are spotted and corrected.</p><p>The team on More or Less were slightly surprised to read a headline in Fortune magazine, claiming that a top academic AI conference accepted research papers which contained 100 AI-hallucinated citations.</p><p>You might think that the top AI researchers in the world would be careful about using AI to write their research papers.</p><p>Alex Cui, CTO and co-founder of GPTZero – whose company discovered the hallucinations – explains what’s going on.</p><p>CREDITS: Presenter and producer: Tom Colls Sound mix: James Beard Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Editor: Richard Vadon</p>