Why do AI search engines hallucinate so often?
AI answer engines generate a fresh response for every query in real time, which makes pre-publication fact-checking structurally impossible at that scale. Models also make retrieval errors, fabricate connections between unrelated facts, and present uncertain guesses with the same confident tone as verified information.
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