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Comment by pants2

2 days ago

Strange that you say that because the general consensus (and my experience) seems to be the opposite, as well as the AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate Benchmark which puts 3.0 Pro among the higher hallucinating models. 3.1 seems to be a noticeable improvement though.

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maxwellcoffee  1 day ago

Google actually has the BEST ratings in the AA-Omniscience Index: AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) measures knowledge reliability and hallucination. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and has no penalty for refusing to answer.

Gemini 3.1 is the top spot, followed by 3.0 and then opus 4.6 max

  • holbrad  1 day ago

    This isn't actually correct.

    Gemini 3.0 gets a very high score because it's very often correct, but it does not have a low hallucination rate.

    https://artificialanalysis.ai/#aa-omniscience-hallucination-...

    It looks like 3.1 is a big improvement in this regard, it hallucinates a lot less.

    • tempestn  20 hours ago

      Yes and no. The hallucination rate shown there is the percentage of time the model answers incorrectly when it should have instead admitted to not knowing the answer. Most models score very poorly on this, with a few exceptions, because they nearly always try to answer. It's true that 3.0 is no better than others on this. By given that it does know the correct answers much more often than eg. GPT 5.2, it does in fact give hallucinated answers much less often.

      In short, its hallucination rate as a percentage of unknown answers is no better than most models, but its hallucination rate as a percentage of total answers in indeed better.

tempestn  2 days ago

I can only speak to my own experience, but for the past couple of months I've been duplicating prompts across both for high value tasks, and that has been my consistent finding.

fnord123  1 day ago

> the AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate Benchmark which puts 3.0 Pro among the higher hallucinating models. 3.1 seems to be a noticeable improvement though.

As sibling comment says, AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate Benchmark puts Gemini 3.0 as the best performing aside from Gemini 3.1 preview.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience