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Hallucination

Definition

A hallucination is a confident answer from a language model that is not supported by its input or by reality, such as an invented fact, citation or tool result.

In more detail

In agents, hallucinations often appear as made-up tool arguments or claims that a step succeeded when it did not, which traces make visible.

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