--- title: [2401.11817] Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate... description: This post formally analyzes the problem of hallucination in large language models and concludes that it is impossible to completely eliminate hallucination.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/2401-11817-hallucination-is-inevitable-an-innate-limitation-of-large-language-models-8eyjmmkq0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: [2401.11817] Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models | daily.dev og:description: This post formally analyzes the problem of hallucination in large language models and concludes that it is impossible to completely eliminate hallucination.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/2401-11817-hallucination-is-inevitable-an-innate-limitation-of-large-language-models-8eyjmmkq0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8EYJMMKQ0.png og:image:alt: [2401.11817] Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # [2401.11817] Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This post formally analyzes the problem of hallucination in large language models and concludes that it is impossible to completely eliminate hallucination. 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