ClaimsSam Altman

“They used to hallucinate all the time.”

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, interviewed 11 September 2025 Transcript: Sam Altman Interview on Tucker Carlson Show (Singju Post)

Factual AI capabilities

Earlier AI models hallucinated all the time.

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Reasoning

Vague characterization ('all the time') with no defined measure.

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Sam Altman, “Earlier AI models hallucinated all the time.” (said 11 September 2025). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_a8db52ffabab, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a8db52ffabab

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More factual claims by Sam Altman

  1. Mostly true Factual 4 September 2026
    “not until 2020 did we train GPT-3, which was the first model that I think actually was over some threshold of usability.”

    OpenAI trained GPT-3 in 2020, which Altman considers the first model above a threshold of usability.

  2. Resolved true Factual 4 September 2026
    “that it is so capable that it is discovering new knowledge, doing science, able to add huge economic value, create entire pieces of complex software.”

    Altman said that a system "we now have" is capable of discovering new knowledge, doing science, adding huge economic value and creating entire pieces of complex software.

  3. Mixed Factual 11 September 2025
    “They now hallucinate a little bit.”

    Current AI models now hallucinate only a little bit.

  4. Mixed Factual 11 September 2025
    “They don’t do anything unless you ask, right?”

    AI models such as ChatGPT do not do anything unless a user asks them to.

  5. Mostly true Factual 15 August 2025
    “But in terms of figuring out what questions to ask or to work on something over a very long period of time, we are definitely not close to human performance.”

    GPT-5 is not close to human performance at figuring out what questions to ask or working on a task over a very long period.

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