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Kevin Gould
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News Producer for CTV Montreal. Motorcycle rider. Chef. Better in print.
Not everyone who complains is acting in good faith.
Seeking perfection isn't just stupid, it's boring. Perfection is dull.
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Straight from the people making AI: All AI systems make stuff up because they were (inadvertently) designed to lie. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664
Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such “hallucinations” persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust. We argue that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty, and we analyze the statistical causes of hallucinations in the modern training pipeline. Hallucinations need not be mysterious—they originate simply as errors in binary classification. If incorrect statements cannot be distinguished from facts, then hallucinations in pretrained language models will arise through natural statistical pressures. We then argue that hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded—language models are optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance. This “epidemic” of penalizing uncertain responses can only be addressed through a socio-technical mitigation: modifying the scoring of existing benchmarks that are misaligned but dominate leaderboards, rather than introducing additional hallucination evaluations. This change may steer the field toward more trustworthy AI systems.
September 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Thanks for the fun night!
People dancing to Stayin' Alive in Girouard Park in NDG, Montreal
May 31, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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When people say certain territories need protection it's always a threat. dgardner.substack.com/p/beware-the...
Newspaper clipping of German invasion of Denmark and Norway, showing that Germany claimed it was "protecting" those countries from other threats.
April 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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For some reason @montreal.ca is calling these streets in CDN-NDG "cleared of snow"
A pedestrian attempts to walk on a sidewalk that is buried under 74 cm of snow, next to 3-metre-wide bank of snow, in NDG, Montreal on Feb. 18, 2025 Mounds of snow as tall as a person sit in the strets of NDG, Montreal on Feb. 18, 2025
February 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I picked a great day to ski to the library and get a snack with my beloved
Two people cross-country skiing on a bike path. A man wearing ski googles in the foreground, a woman wearing a red toque with a pompom behind him.
February 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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If nothing else in life, I put on a welcoming spread #RobbieBurns
A charcuterie board with meat, cheese, fruit, veg. Bowls of olives and hummus. Crackers. Baguette. And lots of whiskey.
January 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Far more positive than my new glass
A pint of beer in a glass showing a turkey buzzard and the slogan "Powered by Spite"
January 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Coming up tonight on CTV Montreal--a retrospective on Les Cowboys Fringants and the two solitudes
November 14, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #178,410!
It's a big board with the number #178,410, indicating I've been on Bluesky for a long time.
September 17, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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Enter Sandman
A snowman, but made of sand, sitting on a beach with a Christmas hat
December 16, 2023 at 3:37 AM
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My youngest as Coraline @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
A child dressed as Coraline, in front of an inflated Halloween arch decorated with spiders A child dressed as Coraline, in front of an inflated Halloween arch decorated with spiders, during the day
November 1, 2023 at 1:02 AM
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One of my friends is a goddamn joker and nobody admits it
August 12, 2023 at 4:10 AM
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My kid has a lot of patience
A small model of an exterior living space with plants, flowers, a patio set and more A small model of an exterior living space with plants, flowers, a patio set and more, illuminated by an overhead light
July 21, 2023 at 12:01 AM
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I had to redo my roof last year and borough bylaws require a white roof...
A newly-installed white membrane roof
July 17, 2023 at 5:15 PM
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The concept of “free” social networking is a kind of unspoken social-financial contract that only exists as long as operators understand the value that users are creating. https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-end-of-the-honest-internet?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
July 9, 2023 at 8:58 PM
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Missing teen in Montreal. Jeanne Bourque, 18 y/o, was last seen in the La-Petite-Patrie area. Investigators have reasons to fear for her health and safety.
Missing Montreal 18 year old Jeanne Bourque
July 9, 2023 at 6:43 PM
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The only reason to take a selfie sitting down is if you're climbing a mountain in a silly fun vehicle
July 4, 2023 at 1:06 AM