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What is Hallucination?

What to Cover​

  • What is hallucination — AI confidently making things up
  • Why it happens (it's not a bug, it's how LLMs work)
  • High-risk areas: legal, medical, financial, factual claims

References​

  1. "What is AI Hallucination?" — IBM: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-hallucinations
  2. "AI Hallucination" — Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/discover/what-are-ai-hallucinations
  3. "Why AI Hallucinates" — MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/24/1093858/what-does-it-mean-when-ai-hallucinates/
  4. "AI Hallucinations Explained" — AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/ai-hallucination/