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by edgyquant 1000 days ago
I’ve been using Claude for months now, as has my dev team and a number of other people I know, and we don’t have this problem at all. In my experience is hallucinates less. This is compared to ChatGPT with GPT4. Anecdotal evidence is worthless it seem.
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hallucination is stochastic.

Out of 1000 people flipping coins over and over again, on average people get a mix of hits and misses - there will always be someone who just get 10 heads in a row and someone else with 10 tails in a row, this corresponds to some users being wowed by the superintelligence nailing the answer every time and other users getting made up citation after made up citation.