For low-knowledge topics like post-cutoff news or obscure figures, large language models maintain a confidence level of 65-75% despite knowledge availability dropping to 10-30%, which creates conditions for confident hallucination.

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

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• Hallucination Causes: Why Language Models Fabricate Facts mbrenndoerfer.com M. Brenndoerfer · mbrenndoerfer.com via serper

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• Large Language Models concept