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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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hallucination

/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The model answering a question the organization had also never answered, only faster.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A model output that is fluent and confident but not supported by its inputs or any verifiable source.

Promoted
See also
  • ground truthOne analyst's spreadsheet, promoted to truth because no one else volunteered.
  • groundingAsking the model to cite a source, which works only if the organization keeps one.
  • guardrailsRules that enforce a policy, written for the policy the org has not yet enforced anywhere else.
  • retrieval-augmented generationA pipeline that retrieves the company's contradictory documents and asks the model to sound certain about all of them.