What is a hallucination?

A hallucination is the model stating something false with complete confidence.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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It is not lying and it is not broken. It predicts what text should come next, and a plausible sentence and a true one look identical from the inside.

The fix is not asking it to be careful. The fix is giving it the real thing to read.