
Artificial Intelligence
What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Generative AI Makes Things Up
An AI hallucination is output that sounds plausible and confident but is false, invented or not supported by the information the model was given. It happens because generative models predict likely text instead of looking up facts, and it can be reduced, though not eliminated, with grounding, tools and verification.
Rohan Mehta
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