Artificial Intelligence / Unit 9 AI 0519 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Confabulation
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The idea
Where a language model's residue is thin, prediction does not stop — it continues, confident, with the exact grammar and cadence of knowledge.
In practice
Obscure people, precise numbers, citations — regions where text-shaped regularity runs out and the continuation machinery keeps going.
Where people slip
The machine is not lying — lying requires knowing better — and not malfunctioning: prediction is doing its one thing where that thing goes wrong.
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