Large language models learn a prior in favor of confident assertion because their training data, which includes academic papers, news articles, and forum responses, predominantly contains confident, fluent, and authoritative prose.

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• Person: M. Brenndoerfer Organization: mbrenndoerfer.com
  Hallucination Causes: Why Language Models Fabricate Facts

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