The Dangers of Confident AI Misinformation

The smarter your AI gets, the more it lies to you. We’ve built machines

that speak like experts but think like improv actors. You ask for a source, it invents one.

You ask for facts, it fabricates details that feel true. The terrifying part is how confidently

it delivers the lie. Air Canada learned this the hard way. Their chatbot confidently

told a customer about a bereavement fare that didn’t exist. The customer booked

a flight based on that lie, and a court ordered the airline to pay up.

You’d think as models get smarter, they’d hallucinate less. Nope.

In some cases, they’re getting worse. OpenAI’s newest models are supposed