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It’s not a trick to sound sophisticated. Hallucinations are more like a subcategory of bugs. The system is technically correctly generating, structuring, and presenting false information as fact.

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Technically everything an LLM does is hallucination that happens to be on a scale between correct and non-correct. But only humans with knowledge can tell the difference, math alone can't. It's not even a bug: it's the defining feature of the technology!

> But only humans with knowledge can tell the difference

Who says the humans (all of them) aren't hallucinating too?

Knowledge isn't sufficient to show something is false, since the knowledge can also be false. Insofar as it's important for it to be true, it needs to be continually verified as true, so that it's grounded in the real world.

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