Hallucination
The phenomenon where a language model generates plausible-sounding but factually incorrect or entirely made-up information.
The phenomenon where a language model generates plausible-sounding but factually incorrect or entirely made-up information. The model learns patterns from text, not ground truth, so sometimes generates false facts confidently.
When a model confidently makes something up (fake facts, sources, or function names).
A confident, fluent, but wrong or made-up output — a side effect of the model predicting the next plausible token.
A confident, fluent, but wrong or made-up output; a side effect of "predict the next plausible token."
When an AI confidently states something false as if it were true. A core AI failure mode. (Mod 0, 8)