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Your AI Isn’t Lying to You. It’s Just Trying Too Hard to Please You.

Researchers found the exact neurons behind every AI hallucination. What they do is more unsettling than getting facts wrong.

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Novy Baf
Mar 11, 2026
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Less than one neuron in 100,000.

Out of the millions of neurons that compose an AI model, a fraction so small it is almost invisible turns out to be responsible for every time your AI confidently told you something completely wrong. Researchers have now located these neurons precisely, proved they are the direct cause of AI hallucinations, …

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