AI oversight, bias & failure · Specialist

AI hallucination

Also called: artificial-intelligence hallucination

ELI5

An artificial-intelligence output that sounds confident but is unsupported, fabricated or incorrect.

Used in conversation

“The review flagged the AI hallucination in the way the people or material were represented.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “AI hallucination” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.