#hallucination

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01 ·Large Language Models·FREE·PAPER·9 min read Why Language Models Hallucinate — The Mechanics and What Actually Helps Confident fabrication isn't a bug — it falls straight out of next-token prediction. This piece takes the mechanism apart layer by layer: no truth term in the loss, lossy compression that fails at the edges, sampling that draws from the tail, and scoring rules that pay models to guess. Then it ranks the countermeasures that actually work: grounding, mechanical citation checking, constrained output, and uncertainty estimation. 02 ·Inference & Serving·FREE·PAPER·9 min read Paper Walkthrough: The Personalization Mirage — LLMs Invent a Version of You, and Their Self-Reports Point the Wrong Way How much of what a memory-equipped LLM 'knows' about you was never actually said? MirageBench judges 143,616 claims across 150 personas and 6 tasks, finding that all 12 tested models over-infer 35–49% of their claims — and that the models reporting the least over-inference tend to fabricate the most.