hallucination
[ huh-loo-suh-NEY-shuhn ]noun
When an AI confidently makes something up: a command, a quote, a setting, a fact that does not exist.
Explanation
The word flatters the machine. It suggests it saw something wrong, when really it just wrote something that sounded likely. Sometimes likely is false.
Related words
- confident wrongness — An answer that reads well, looks tidy, sounds certain, and is wrong.
- slopsquatting — Registering a package name that AIs commonly invent, so that when one invents it, what arrives is the attacker's code.
Prompts that deal with it
- Hand It An Error — Give it more than “it broke”
- Verify The Imports — It used something that does not exist
- Dependency Interrogation — Every add-on answers three questions