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Re:OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that ... by macrolime on Sunday October 19, 2025 @11:05AM (#45634693)
What is "it". Gpt-5 auto? Gpt-5 pro? Deep research? These have wildly different hallucination rates.
Re:OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that ... by bathtub365 on Sunday October 19, 2025 @11:36AM (#45634964)
If these rates are known it would be great for OpenAI to be open about them so customers can make an informed decision
Re:OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that ... by malfist on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:19PM (#45635385)
"Known" implies that these rates are consistent and measurable. It seems to me, that this is highly unlikely to be the case
Re:OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that ... by clbrmbr on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:19PM (#45635386)
OpenAI goes into great detail on hallucination rates of GPT5 models versus o3 in the GPT5 System Card [1], section 3.7.

[1] https://cdn.openai.com/gpt-5-system-card.pdf#page12

Re:OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that ... by Maxatar on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:37PM (#45636113)
OpenAI has published a great deal of information about hallucination rates, as have the other major LLM providers.

You can't just give one single global hallucination rate since the rates depend on the different use cases and despite the abundant amount of information available to people on how to pick the appropriate tool for a given task, it seems very few people care to take the time to actually first recognize that these LLMs are tools, and that you do need to learn how to use these tools in order to be productive with them.

Re:OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that ... by crazygringo on Sunday October 19, 2025 @02:48PM (#45636822)
I use all of the current versions of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.

The hallucination rates are about the same as far as I can tell. It depends mostly on how niche the area is, not which model. They do seem to train on somewhat different sets of academic sources, so it's good to use them all.

I'm not talking about deep research or advanced thinking modes -- those are great for some tasks but don't really add anything when you're just looking for all the sources on a subject, as opposed to a research report.

Re:OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that ... by astrange on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:46PM (#45648352)
ChatGPT thinking mode is definitely the best search engine (wrapper) I've ever used, and you should be using it to find sources.