Glossary term
Glossary term
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Synonym for hallucination.
Confabulation is probably a more technically accurate term than hallucination. However, hallucination became popular first.
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A legal-tech vendor adds retrieval grounding to its contract assistant to reduce confabulation when the model is asked about clauses it has not seen.
A medical writing tool flags confabulation risk and shows the source passage alongside each generated sentence so reviewers can verify before signing off.
A financial research assistant logs confabulation incidents from user feedback to prioritize which knowledge sources to add to the retrieval index next.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License