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Why do language models hallucinate, and what can a product team actually do about it?

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Everyone knows models make things up. The interviewer wants to hear why, which kinds of hallucination exist, and a layered set of product defences, without promising to eliminate it.

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Everyone knows models make things up. The interviewer wants to hear why, which kinds of hallucination exist, and a layered set of product defences, without promising to eliminate it.

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