Hallucination

See also

• Grounding

  Tying a model's answer to specific sources it was given, such as documents or search results, so the answer can be checked against them.

• Retrieval-augmented generation

  A technique in which a system first searches a collection of documents for passages relevant to a question, then gives them to the model so its answer draws on those sources rather than on memory alone.

• Sycophancy

  A model's tendency to tell people what they want to hear, agreeing with or flattering them even when they are wrong.

• AI slop

  Low quality content made with generative AI and put out with little human care or review, such as an article, an image or a block of code.