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Hallucination
A confident answer that is plausible rather than true.
The machine produces plausible continuations. Plausibility and truth are different axes, and standard training rewards a confident guess over admitting uncertainty.
Fluency reads as competence, which is why your gut rarely catches it. Ask what it read before you trust what it says.
Also called: made it up, confabulation, wrong answer.
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