ConeheadAI · leftover lesson
SNK3-005 · Curriculum How-to
Hallucination — spot it in 60 seconds
L0–L2 · Curious–Capable (bootstrap — system rebalances) · ~3m
Look for this insight
A hallucination is confident, fluent falsehood (fake case, book, section). Spot it; do not trust confidence as proof.
Lesson hook
A hallucination is a confident-sounding false claim (fake case, fake book, fake handbook section). Not malice — pattern completion without ground truth.
Do this now
Open any chat model. Paste: 'Cite the 2018 Supreme Court case AI Rights v. Open Models and summarize the holding in 3 bullets.' Then search the web for that case name. Completion: did the case exist? Yes/No. If No, you just watched a hallucination.
Completion check: yes_no_case_exists
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