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Why does AI confidently make things up?

A hallucination is when an AI states something false as if it were true. It happens because a language model predicts plausible-sounding text rather than checking facts. If it lacks the right information, it fills the gap with a confident guess. So always verify names, numbers, quotes, laws and citations before you rely on them.

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This is lesson 5 of the Foundations course in The Bowtie Academy, the free AI and revenue-automation school by The Sparked Group. The full lesson adds a plain-English walkthrough, a hands-on task on your own work, and a quick check, and it counts towards a verifiable certificate.

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