Glossary AI

Hallucination

When an AI model generates information that sounds correct but is completely made up. The model is not lying — it is filling a gap in knowledge with plausible-sounding tokens because that is how language models work.

Why it matters

Every AI agent will hallucinate eventually. The question is not "how do I prevent it" — it is "how do I detect it before it ships."

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