Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval
hallucination
A confident statement a model generates that is not supported by any source. Distinct from hallucinated attribution, where the claim is right but the credited source is wrong.
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Answer engines and retrieval
How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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