Applied AI·Evaluation and reliability
you asked for a citation and got a real-looking one that does not exist, delivered with the same confidence as the parts that were true.
Hallucination
Draft summary, pending review
The model asserting things that are false or unsupported, fluently and confidently. Not a bug to be patched but intrinsic to next-token prediction; systems manage it with grounding, citations, validation and human review at the stakes that warrant it.