Comment by yieldcrv
10 hours ago
if last year's models were the ones people got familiar with in late 2022, hallucinations would be an underrepresented rumor, there would be no articles about it because its so rare. overconfident lawyers wouldn't have messed up dockets in court with fake case law, in other domains that move faster, sources would be only partially outdated with agentic search and mcp servers filling in the gaps
AI psychosis would be the problem people talk about more, not just outright agreement but subtle ways of making you feel confident in your ideas. "yes, buy that domain name buy these other ones for defensibility"
(the domain name is dumb and completely unmarketable)
The models still hallucinate bad when called via APIs, especially if web search is not enabled. Gemini hallucinates quite frequently even with the app and search enabled. More recent (e.g. ChatGPT 5.x and Deepseek v4) prompts/harnesses search very aggressively, which does greatly mitigate hallucinations.