Hallucination
When an AI says something made up as if it were true.
Learn it through a story
- The Parrot Who Finished Every Sentence (Jugnupur Tales Vol 1, Ch 4)
- How a Chatbot Goes to School (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 5)
Short on time? Read the 5-minute version.
Related terms
- Generative AI AI that makes new pictures, text, music or video.
- Grounding Tying an AI's answer to real sources, so it can be checked.
- Guardrails Protections that help an AI refuse harmful requests.
- Human feedback People comparing answers so the model learns which are better.
- Image generation AI that creates new pictures from a text description.
- Knowledge cutoff The date after which a model has no training information.