More concise chatbot responses tied to increase in hallucinations, study finds

May 11 2025 by Mashable

 

Asking any of the popular chatbots to be more concise "dramatically impact[s] hallucination rates," according to a recent study.

French AI testing platform Giskard published a study analyzing chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Grok, and DeepSeek, for hallucination-related issues. In its findings, the researchers discovered that asking the models to be brief in their responses "specifically degraded factual reliability across most models tested," according to the...

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