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Generation Is Not Retrieval: What 'Hallucination' Actually Is
Developers treat hallucination as a lookup that went wrong. The mechanism is that the model generates plausible continuations and there is no lookup. Verification isn't a bug to fix on the model side. It's a structural job on the user side.
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