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GLOSSARY · MODELS · ETHICS

HALLUCINATION

Confident invention: a model producing a certification mark, a statistic, a limb or a citation that does not exist.

A generative model optimises for plausibility, not truth. It has no mechanism for knowing that the award badge it has drawn on your packaging is fictional, because it is not drawing an award badge; it is drawing what award badges look like.

In visual work the expensive hallucinations are the legally loaded ones: invented certifications, invented ingredient claims, invented awards. That is why the claim gate exists, and why it is separate from the label gate. A label can be checked by reading. A claim has to be checked against a document.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

How do you stop AI hallucinations in marketing content?

Constrain and verify. Give the model the source text rather than asking it to recall, and run a claim gate where every factual assertion on screen has to trace to a document before it renders.

THEORY IS FREE

Knowing the word is the cheap part.

Running it on a deadline, at volume, without burning the budget is the expensive part. That is the bit we do.

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