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AIHOT · Published October 23, 2026 at 12:00

MIT scholar Benjamin Lindquist's paper traces AI hallucinations to early neural network research from the mid-20th century that introduced randomness.

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MIT assistant professor of history Benjamin Lindquist published a paper in Past and Present tracing generative AI hallucinations back to mid-20th-century engineers who intentionally injected randomness and irrationality into algorithms to simulate human creativity.

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