IONI — Institute of NLP India

Hallucination (in NLP)

In NLP's technical sense: filling missing information with your own projection — "he's resistant", "she didn't like it" — where no sensory data established it.

The discipline is labelling: when you catch yourself hallucinating, mark it ("that's my projection") and go back to sensory-based description. Most conflict escalation runs on unlabelled hallucinations.

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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026