Generative AI & language models
Hallucination
Definition
An AI response that sounds confident but contains incorrect, misleading, or invented information.
Visual example
Wrong dish = hallucination
The kitchen connection
Think of a polished but incorrect dish.
The illustration connects the AI idea to something familiar. Follow the subject, the action, and the result to see how it works.
- 01 · Who or what
- Wrong dish = hallucination
- 02 · What happens
- Looks confident but is mistaken
- 03 · The result
- Gives the guest false information
Why it matters
It reminds users that confident-sounding AI answers still need fact-checking.