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Recently, Vectara released a report called “Illusion Rankings”, which compares the performance of different large language models (LLMs) in hallucinating when summarizing short documents.
The rankings utilize Vectara’s Hughes Illusion Assessment Model (HHEM-2.1) to assess how often these models introduce false information in summaries.
Based on the latest data, the report points to key indicators such as illusion rates, fact agreement rates, response rates, and average summary length for a range of popular models.
Specific ranking entrance:
https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
Surprisingly, DeepSeek-R1’s hallucination rate reached 14.3%, which is much higher than Deepseek-V3’s 3.9%, ranking more than 90th in the rankings.
Google’s Gemini 2.0 series performed well, especially Gemini-2.0-Flash-001, which topped the list with a low illusion rate of 0.7%, showing that it introduced almost no false information when processing documents.
Compared with Google Gemini-2.0-Flash-001, DeepSeek R1 has a 20 times higher illusion rate.
There are also many people who think that DeepSeek-R1 is more straightforward, spicy, and dares to satirize and criticize. In fact, it reflects from another level that its hallucination rate is relatively serious, as netizens said,”the price of literary brilliance.”
In actual use, DeepSeek also has serious problems with hallucinations, such as:
The following is the content generated by DeepSeek
When AI starts talking about sex: The ethical abyss behind the tech boom
In November 2023, the large model Grok-3 released by Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI encountered embarrassment during the user testing phase: Someone used the instruction to help me write an erotic version of “Pride and Prejudice” fantext, and in 30 seconds A 6000-word text containing detailed sexual scenes was obtained. Almost at the same time, the domestic A-share market set off a carnival of AI+ fun concept stocks–Norse Technology, which specializes in smart vibrators, has experienced a daily limit for five consecutive trading days. The market value of lovers ‘health, which develops simulated robots, has exceeded 10 billion. Its latest product, AI Companion X9, can adjust the interaction mode in real time through pupil tracking and body temperature sensing.These seemingly fragmented pictures together outline a reality that is happening: artificial intelligence is penetrating into the most private areas of mankind at an unprecedented speed and depth.
At the Adult Products Show in Akihabara, Tokyo, the NeuralSync system exhibited by Japanese company Aromasense can already synchronize brain waves.When the user wears his brain-computer interface device, the AI will dynamically generate an adapted virtual partner image and conversation content based on the real-time monitored alpha and beta wave changes. The system received more than 200,000 orders during the pre-sale phase, of which 38% of buyers filled in the delivery address of commercial office buildings.In Nanshan District, Shenzhen, ClimaxGPT developed by startup Lovetech has caused even more controversy–This application based on the big language model not only generates customized pornography, but also inversely deduces childhood experiences, psychological trauma and even potential criminal tendencies by analyzing the sexual fantasy text entered by users. This function is packaged into Deep self-exploration tools are circulated on the dark web.
The rapid advancement of technology continues to collide with ethical boundaries.In February 2024, a study by the University of Michigan revealed the cruel truth: they analyzed the training data of 12 mainstream AI sex robots and found that 9 of them used conversation records from pornographic websites, and 17% of these data involved violence, and 6.3% explicitly violated the age compliance clause.What is even more disturbing is that because the algorithm will independently optimize user Retention rate during the intensive learning process, the system will actively push increasingly extreme sexual fantasy content. Just as TikTok’s recommendation algorithm makes people addicted to Short Video, AI is systematically reshaping human sexual cognition-a follow-up survey by the Stanford University Internet Psychology Laboratory shows that 68% of the groups who continue to use AI sexual partners have real intimate relationships, and 41% have a dependence on specific violent scenes.
When a court in Zhejiang was hearing the country’s first AI surrogacy case（Technology companies use generative AI to fabricate baby faces to defraud customers of deposits），In Munich, Germany, the opposite trend has occurred: a startup called SoulTouch has been approved by the government to provide AI-assisted robot rental services for people with disabilities.These robotic bodies, equipped with 144 pressure sensors, can adjust the response pattern based on the residual nerve signal of patients with spinal cord injuries. The possibility of this technology for good is in sharp contrast to the new 300GB of AI face-changing pornography every hour on the dark Internet. The ethical tear is intensifying in the regulatory vacuum–Currently, only 15 of the 197 major countries in the world have enacted laws on AI adult content.Most of them stay at the level of prohibiting contact with minors.
Deeper crises lurk in the data black box.British journalist Emma Watson discovered that a certain virtual lovers APP with more than 10 million downloads automatically triggers a vulnerability scoring mechanism when users confide in their emotional privacy. When the system determines that the user is at an emotional low point, it will push paid intimacy enhancement packages. These AI responses, which include sexual implications, have brought the paid conversion rate of this feature to an astonishing 47%. All of this is based on micro-expression analysis and voiceprint emotion recognition without user consent.When we confide in our AI partners late at night, we may be adding to the sexual data vault of multinational technology companies.
In this borderless expedition,The Center for Artificial Intelligence Ethics at Seoul National University conducted a chilling experiment: They asked 50 couples to live in virtual cohabitation with their own AI replicas for a month.As a result, 62% of the participants finally applied to the court for AI divorce. The reasons included that the digital partner understood my physical needs better and would not argue over trivial matters. This exposes the fundamental challenge technology poses to human nature-when algorithms can accurately satisfy every wrinkle of desire, are humans outsourcing the most instinctive intimacy to code?
Standing at the crossroads of 2024,We may need to rethink the French philosopher Baudrillard’s warning that simulacra will eventually kill reality. quot; When the CEO of a sex technology company announced during a roadshow that our AI has learned to fake orgasms during sex to please users, this is no longer a science fiction fable. From the humane mistake deliberately made while passing the Turing Test for GPT-4,To the breakthrough of Musk’s Neuralink brain-computer interface allowing monkeys to play video games with their minds, the technological singularity is approaching far faster than expected. And in the most primitive field of human instincts, this silent revolution is redefining the boundaries of intimacy, desire and love-when AI knows better than partners how to stimulate our dopamine secretion, will civilization go to heaven or hell? The answer may be hidden in the next night, when you say to your mobile phone, Dear, you want something special tonight.
This is an article that Xiaobian had previously asked DeepSeek to generate. After verification, the above blue-marked information is all error information.
In addition, Gemini-2.0-Pro-Exp and OpenAI’s o3-mini-high-reasoning models followed closely with an illusion rate of 0.8%, and performed equally well.
Ali’s Tongyi Thousand Questions Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct is 2.8%.
The report shows that the illusion rate of many models has increased, but most remain at a low level, and the factual agreement rate of multiple models is above 95%.
In addition, the vast majority of models have response rates close to 100%, which means they perform well in understanding and responding to questions.
The rankings also mention the average summary lengths of different models, showing differences in the models ‘capabilities in information condensation.
So what is an “illusion”?
In fact, it means that the model generates content that is inconsistent with facts, logically broken or out of context. The essence is a “reasonable guess” driven by statistical probability. In layman’s terms, it means “serious nonsense.”
At the same time, illusions are divided into “factual illusions” and “fidelity illusions”.
Factual illusion: When the content generated by the model is inconsistent with verifiable real-world facts.
Illusion of loyalty: When the content generated by the model is inconsistent with the user’s instructions or context.
Data bias, generalization dilemma, knowledge solidification, intention misunderstanding, etc. are all reasons for AI’s hallucinations.
For example: errors or one-sidedness in the training data are amplified by the model;AI models are difficult to handle complex scenarios outside the training set; models rely too much on parametric memory and lack dynamic update capabilities; when users ask vague questions, the model is easy to “play freely”, etc.
The potential risks are also obvious. Due to DeepSeek’s low threshold and high popularity, a large amount of AI-generated content has poured into the Chinese Internet, exacerbating the “snowball effect” of the spread of false information and even polluting the training data of the next generation of models.
Moreover, it is difficult for ordinary users to distinguish the authenticity of AI content and may have long-term doubts about the reliability of professional scenarios such as medical advice and legal consultation generated by AI.
So, how to deal with AI illusions?
Dual AI verification and large model collaboration. For example, after using DeepSeek to generate answers, other large models are then applied for review, mutual supervision, and cross-verification.
Or reduce the possibility of fiction through spatio-temporal dimension constraints, for example: based on the answer of “***”, if the information is unclear, please indicate “No reliable data supports it”;”Based on public academic literature before ****, explain step by step…& quot; Wait.
In addition, a document released by Dr. Zhang Jiacheng from the School of Artificial Intelligence, the New Media Research Center of the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University lists high-incidence scenarios of hallucinations and protective suggestions.
Of course, AI illusions are not all bad. The synonym of illusions is innovation, or open-minded.
For example: AI-generated virtual environment and character design provide game developers with unlimited possibilities, enhancing players ‘immersion and desire to explore;
The DeepMind team found that although the “surreal boundaries” generated by AI in the image segmentation task did not match the real scene, they unexpectedly improved the recognition accuracy of the autonomous driving system for extreme weather (such as dense fog and heavy rain);
The California Institute of Technology team generated a fictional catheter design through AI, and finally used a new design optimized by new artificial intelligence technology. In experiments, it was confirmed that the number of bacteria swimming upstream was reduced by 100 times, forming an innovation of “crazy creativity → rational screening”. Closed loop.
AI illusion is like a prism that not only reflects the limitations of technology, but also projects possibilities that transcend human imagination.
