Day 2 of 14 · AI Superuser
How ChatGPT Actually Works
ChatGPT does not understand you. It predicts you.
When you type a message, ChatGPT breaks it into tokens (roughly word-sized chunks), then predicts the most likely next token based on patterns from its training data -- billions of web pages, books, and articles.
This is why AI hallucinates. It is not lying. It is generating text that sounds right based on probability, even when the facts are wrong. Think of it as the world's most confident guesser.
Key takeaway: Never trust AI output without checking it. It will confidently give you wrong answers with zero hesitation.
ChatGPT predicts the most likely next token. It does not understand -- it calculates.
Knowledge Check
Why does ChatGPT sometimes "hallucinate" or make up false information?
ChatGPT generates text by predicting the most probable next token based on patterns in its training data. It does not truly understand facts, so it can confidently produce text that sounds correct but is actually wrong.