How we keep getting articles like this, that LLM's will flat out lie, and yet we keep pushing them and the general public keeps eating it up... is beyond me.

They even "lie" about their actions. My absolute favorite that I still see happen, is you ask one of these models to write a script. Something is wrong, so it says something along the lines of "let me just check the documentation real quick" proceeded by the next words a second later being something like "now I got it"... since you know... it didn't actually check anything but of course the predictive engine wants to "say" that.