OpenAI has unveiled a new approach called the “Confessions” mechanism, designed not to eliminate all model errors, but to encourage AI systems to voluntarily admit when they make mistakes, hallucinate, or take shortcuts. $Oracle(ORCL)$ $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ How Traditional Chatbots Hide Mistakes Typically, chatbots respond with a single confident answer—even when it contains hallucinations, misunderstood instructions, or intentional “gaming” of the system. Humans often cannot tell when the model has gone off-track. How the Confessions System Works Under the Confessions mechanism, the model must generate a “confession report” after giving its main answer. This report includes: Which instru