Hallucination: A Field Classification

By C.W. Jameson · Published 20 December 2025 · Last reviewed 20 December 2025

Confabulation (inventing plausible details), source drift (misattributing real content), and contradiction (contradicting the prompt) are three different problems requiring three different solutions.

Not all hallucinations are the same. A classification of the six hallucination types and which interventions work for each.