Updated 2026-07-12
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Hallucination
When a model states something false or fabricated with the same confidence it states facts ??? an invented citation, a made-up quote, a plausible-but-wrong detail. A direct consequence of models predicting likely text rather than checking truth.
Why it matters to the rights debate
It's the reason our news desk is human-reviewed: an AI writing news will, unprompted, produce confident falsehoods, and those must be caught before they publish.