AI Doesn't Hallucinate. Your Architecture Does.

Everyone is talking about hallucination. That's the wrong diagnosis. Hallucination isn't a bug. It's the mechanism. Turn the temperature down far enough and the model stops confabulating, but it also stops being useful. What people call hallucination is what LLMs do when their creativity fails in a context that needed correctness. But all LLM output is hallucination in some form: generated token by token, probabilistically, without ground truth — just with enough structure and guardrails that m...