// Hacker Noon · 3 March 2026

A Hallucination Is a Gap in AI Knowledge

The author is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M researching transient environmental exposures in beef cattle. He says AI treats hallucination as a defect, but it is also a diagnostic signal. A hallucination is the model drawing you a map of where the map runs out, he says.

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