Why does AI Hallucinate?

If you're considering adding AI into your app, make sure to understand how AI can hallucinate and how to adjust for that so that you don't end up losing money in legal fees!

We’ve all experienced this by now. We ask ChatGPT to generate some Swift code, especially using a new framework we haven’t worked with before, and it gives back legitimate-looking code. But when we copy and paste the code into our codebase, the function it came up with doesn’t actually exist!

Swift code is just an example, but this can happen for anythi…