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Hallucination

noun
Foundational concepts Reporting on AI

When an AI system confidently generates information that is factually incorrect or entirely made up. Chatbots and other AI tools can hallucinate anything from fake legal citations to false biographical details about real people.

The new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of OpenAI's older models. TechCrunch
Some of the most sophisticated new reasoning models are hallucinating more frequently, for reasons that aren't clear to researchers. TIME
Claude hallucinated the citation with 'an inaccurate title and inaccurate authors,' Anthropic says in the filing. TechCrunch
Entry by Ryan Serpico
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