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Why ChatGPT Makes Up Citations: The Technical Reason LLMs Hallucinate Sources

A technical explanation of why ChatGPT fabricates academic citations: token prediction, training data gaps, RLHF artifacts, and why retrieval changes everything.

Apr 16, 202614 min read

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