LLM hallucination
LLM hallucination is when an AI generates compelling but false text. What is it, why does it arise, and how does it affect SEO and AI search?
Hallucination is a language model response that sounds convincing but contains false facts: non-existent references, incorrect dates, invented quotes. The model does not have a mechanism for verifying the validity: it chooses the next token by probability, and the plausibility of the text has nothing to do with its truth.
For SEO, there are two specific risks:
AI content without manual verification publishes bugs that hit E-E-A-T.
An AI search engine can misquotate your site by distorting the price or terms.
The more accurate and textured the page, the less the model has reasons to speculate.
Related terms
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