Hallucination — the generation of inaccurate, unverified, or illogical content — is the most frequently reported technical challenge for LLMs in dental education¶

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q2 i? The most frequently reported technical issue is hallucination, where LLMs generate unverified, inaccurate, or illogical content, attributed to limitations in training data and the probabilistic nature of language generation. → Kong Mengjie 2025

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Kong Mengjie 2025¶

Kong Mengjie, Fok Elise Hoi Wan, Yiu Cynthia Kar Yung. (2025). A Scoping Review of Large Language Models in Dental Education: Applications, Challenges, and Prospects. International Dental Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.identj.2025.103854

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The review's challenges section identifies that "the most frequently reported technical issue is the phenomenon of 'hallucination'", noting a notable proportion of LLM responses are factually incorrect regardless of model type or version.

"Among these, the most frequently reported technical issue is the phenomenon of 'hallucination', which LLMs generate unverified, inaccurate, or illogical content. This issue is generally attributed to limitations in training data and the inherently probabilistic nature of language generation."

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