When queried about facts occurring after their knowledge cutoff, well-calibrated large language models acknowledge ignorance, whereas under-calibrated models extrapolate from prior patterns, producing confident but outdated or fabricated answers.

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

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