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What is Hallucination?

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When a model produces confident but incorrect or unsupported information.

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Hallucinations occur when models fill gaps with plausible-sounding fiction. Mitigations include retrieval, citations, confidence thresholds, and human review.

Treat hallucination risk as a product design problem—not only a model selection problem.

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