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Community Question โ€ข Apr 21, 2026

Why does ChatGPT sometimes give me a completely wrong answer but sound so confident about it?

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Siddharth Verma
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That's called a 'hallucination.' The model is essentially predicting the next most likely word, not actually 'knowing' facts. Always fact-check its output, especially for dates, names, or complex math problems where it might lose the thread.
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