AI Hallucinations: Understanding and Mitigating False Outputs
The word “hallucination” is one of the most successful pieces of accidental marketing in our industry. It is a soft, almost endearing way to describe an LLM stating with full confidence that a function exists when it does not, that a court case was decided when it was not, that a paper was written by an author who has never published in that field. It makes the failure sound like a quirk rather than the central reliability problem of the entire technology. ...