Hallucination
Hallucination na confident but unsupported or fabricated output from language model: claim wey sound plausible but no get basis in provided evidence or reality. Hallucinations na central risk in automating knowledge work, and grounding with cited evidence na primary mitigation.
Synonym dem: AI hallucination, fabrication, confabulation, ungrounded output
Hallucination na wetin happen when fluency outrun truth. Because model optimize for plausible continuations, e fit produce specific names, numbers, or citations wey never real. For low-stakes drafting na nuisance; for governed work automation na hard failure wey fit mislead decision or trigger wrong action. Defenses dey architectural: retrieve real evidence, constrain generation to am, attach citations, and design explicit path for declining or escalating when evidence no support answer.