hallucination
A confident statement a model generates that is not supported by any source.
What hallucination means
Distinct from hallucinated attribution, where the claim is right but the credited source is wrong.
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Questions about hallucination
What is hallucination?
A confident statement a model generates that is not supported by any source.
What does hallucination not show or guarantee?
A confident statement a model generates that is not supported by any source.
Which area of the glossary does hallucination belong to?
Answer engines and retrieval: How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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