OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable (Sept. 2025)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

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droidjjMay 26, 2026, 8:56 PM
The paper this article is based on: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664. It's not as sensational as the headline suggests. E.g., "Hallucinations are inevitable only for base models." I feel like this is something most people familiar with how LLMs work already understand.
hansmayerMay 27, 2026, 8:16 AM
:) Really? Because in the same paragraph, their solution to avoiding hallucinations is using an expert system, you know that stuff we declared as un-scalable decades ago: "However, a non-hallucinating model could be easily created, using a question-answer database and a calculator, which answers a fixed set of questions such as “What is the chemical symbol for gold?” and well-formed mathematical calculations such as “3 + 8”, and otherwise outputs IDK. "

Do you still think they are inevitable? Are we going to now feed the Shit-Chat-Gpt with a lookup table of all addition combinations in the universe? Please stop trying to justify this crap, it will never really work.