# AI Hallucinations Are Often Reasonable Suggestions

DevFeed: [AI Hallucinations Are Often Reasonable Suggestions](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ai-hallucinations-are-often-reasonable-suggestions-35372.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://darkcoding.net/software/ai-hallucinations-are-often-reasonable-suggestions/>)

Author: Graham King

Published: 2024-05-26T19:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Graham King](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/graham-king.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-hallucination](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-hallucination.md>), [hallucinations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hallucinations.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [society](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/society.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [training-data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/training-data.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that AI hallucinations are often plausible suggestions produced when language models fill gaps in incomplete or ambiguous input. Using Air Canada's bereavement-fare chatbot incident and the Age of the Captain problem, it suggests these responses should be taken seriously as ideas that may reveal how policies or assumptions could change.

## Source excerpt

Don't dismiss the statistically probable