> Why do LLMs hallucinate?
> The answer was not “insufficient data” or “temperature settings.” The answer was that they have no mechanism for checking if a claim is valid.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Genuinely intelligent beings are quite capable of answering without fabrication in absence of a validation mechanism.
Drop the "hallicination" euphemism, recognise it as fabrication, and the true answer becomes obvious. Parrots fabricate because that's all they are made to do.