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AI 101 · Making AI reliable

What is an AI hallucination?

A model producing confident text that is wrong. Not a bug that gets fixed, a property of how the technology works.

In one sentence

A model producing confident text that is wrong.

Why it matters to a business

Any design that assumes correct output is already broken. Systems that survive contact with production ground answers in retrieved sources and put a person in front of anything expensive to get wrong.

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Quick answers

Hallucination, in questions

The same answer, in the shape people ask it.

What is an AI hallucination?

A model producing confident text that is wrong. Not a bug that gets fixed, a property of how the technology works.

Why does Hallucination matter to a business?

Any design that assumes correct output is already broken. Systems that survive contact with production ground answers in retrieved sources and put a person in front of anything expensive to get wrong.

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