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Chatbot Hallucinations and Concise Prompts
- Asking AI chatbots to be concise can increase hallucinations.
- Giscard, an AI testing company, found that prompts for shorter answers, especially on ambiguous topics, negatively affect an AI model's factuality.
- Newer reasoning models like OpenAI's O3 hallucinate more than previous models.
- Vague and misinformed questions asking for short answers can worsen hallucinations.
- Leading models, including GPT-4O and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, suffer dips in factual accuracy when asked to keep answers short.