{"id":107417,"date":"2025-12-22T22:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/gemini-3-flash-is-smart-but-when-it-doesnt-know-it-makes-stuff-up-anyway\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:27:50","slug":"gemini-3-flash-is-smart-but-when-it-doesnt-know-it-makes-stuff-up-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/gemini-3-flash-is-smart-but-when-it-doesnt-know-it-makes-stuff-up-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini 3 Flash is smart \u2014 but when it doesn\u2019t know, it makes stuff up anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.fiverr.com\/visit\/?bta=1052423&nci=17043\" Target=\"_Top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fiverr.ck-cdn.com\/tn\/serve\/?cid=40081059\"  width=\"601\" height=\"201\"><\/a>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/L234QRg7ZU2aHycbyaMeEa-1200-80.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<hr id=\"5f8f4d2e-dea2-464b-94db-1bc801820ea2\"\/>\n<ul id=\"df367971-d792-4077-818d-8fb18eefa0c6\">\n<li><strong>Gemini 3 Flash typically invents solutions as a substitute of admitting when it doesn\u2019t know one thing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The issue arises with factual or excessive\u2011stakes questions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>However it nonetheless checks as probably the most correct and succesful AI mannequin<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr id=\"55b08fa1-ea92-4431-ba83-d2061a6c0697\"\/>\n<p id=\"c1b28371-bdc1-40ad-b49d-5e8110567883\">Gemini 3 Flash is quick and intelligent. However in case you ask it one thing it doesn\u2019t really know \u2013 one thing obscure or difficult or simply exterior its coaching \u2013 it is going to nearly all the time attempt to bluff its manner via, in response to a latest analysis from the impartial testing group Synthetic Evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>It appears Gemini 3 Flash hit 91% on the \u201challucination charge\u201d portion of the AA-Omniscience benchmark. Which means when it didn\u2019t have the reply, it nonetheless gave one anyway, nearly on a regular basis, one which was totally fictional.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"c1b28371-bdc1-40ad-b49d-5e8110567883-2\">AI chatbots making things up has been an issue since they first debuted. Knowing when to stop and say I don&#8217;t know is just as important as knowing how to answer in the first place. Currently, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/google\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> Gemini 3 Flash AI doesn\u2019t try this very nicely. That is what the check is for: seeing whether or not a mannequin can differentiate precise data from a guess.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\">\n<span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\"><br \/>\nChances are you&#8217;ll like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Lest the quantity distract from actuality, it must be famous that Gemini\u2019s excessive hallucination charge doesn\u2019t imply 91% of its whole solutions are false. As a substitute, it implies that in conditions the place the proper reply could be \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d it fabricated a solution 91% of the time. That\u2019s a delicate however essential distinction, however one which has real-world implications, particularly as Gemini is built-in into extra merchandise like Google Search.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\" id=\"2001594901713080675\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Okay, it is not solely me. Gemini 3 Flash has a 91% hallucination charge on the Synthetic Evaluation Omniscience Hallucination Charge benchmark!?Are you able to really use this for something severe?I ponder if the rationale Anthropic fashions are so good at coding is that they hallucinate a lot\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/b3CZbX9pHw pic.twitter.com\/uZnF8KKZD4<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2001594901713080675\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2001594901713080675\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"0b8c3754-1864-4c86-9f33-85fcdec269ae\">This consequence does not diminish the facility and utility of Gemini 3. The mannequin stays the highest-performing in general-purpose checks and ranks alongside, and even forward of, the newest variations of ChatGPT and Claude. It simply errs on the aspect of confidence when it must be modest.<\/p>\n<p>The overconfidence in answering crops up with Gemini&#8217;s rivals as nicely. What makes Gemini\u2019s quantity stand out is how typically it occurs in these uncertainty eventualities, the place there\u2019s merely no right reply within the coaching information or no definitive public supply to level to.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-ecc76a38-2b90-4ecc-8c95-b912b11bac09\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"hallucination-honesty-3\">Hallucination Honesty<\/h2>\n<p id=\"c1658711-3fcc-4bd1-bc50-c1effe967f79\">Part of the issue is simply that generative AI models are largely word-prediction tools, and predicting a new word is not the same as evaluating truth. And that means the default behavior is to come up with a new word, even when saying &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; would be more honest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-CQPnf7kHbzuDybnBMjXCq4\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-CQPnf7kHbzuDybnBMjXCq4 slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>OpenAI has started addressing this and getting its models to recognize what they don\u2019t know and say so clearly. It\u2019s a tough thing to train, because reward models don\u2019t typically value a blank response over a confident (but wrong) one. Still, OpenAI has made it a goal for the development of future models.<\/p>\n<p>And Gemini does usually cite sources when it can. But even then, it doesn\u2019t always pause when it should. That wouldn\u2019t matter much if Gemini were just a research model, but as Gemini becomes the voice behind many Google features, being confidently wrong could affect quite a lot.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a design choice here. Many users expect their AI assistant to respond quickly and smoothly. Saying \u201cI\u2019m not sure\u201d or \u201cLet me check on that\u201d might feel clunky in a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/chatbot\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/chatbot\">chatbot<\/a> context. 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