Large language models experience completion pressure, where the form of a question creates a strong signal about the expected answer type, forcing the model to produce a substantive answer even when no reliable information is available.

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

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