Hallucination and fabricated output
The system confidently generates false, fabricated, or unfaithful content (hallucination/confabulation) that misleads users.
- Risk family
- Model & system behaviour
- MIT domain
- 3. Misinformation
- MIT subdomain
- 3.1 > False or misleading information
- AI type
- GPAI
- Scope
- System
- Source standard
- MIT AI Risk Repository v4
Provenance
65 entries across 28 papers
- Abercrombie2024A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms58.07.06 58.07.07
- Anwar2024Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models73.04.03
- Bengio2024International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI49.02.01
- Clarke2023A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values55.04.02
- Cui2024Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems02.02.00 02.02.01 02.02.02 02.09.00 02.09.01 02.09.02 02.09.03
- Cunha2023Navigating the Landscape of AI Ethics and Responsibility03.02.00
- Deng2023Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements04.05.00
- EPIC2023Generating Harms - Generative AI's impact and paths forwards31.01.03
- Ferrara2023GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models46.03.00
- G'sell2024Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI47.01.00 47.01.04 47.02.11
- Gabriel2024The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants24.07.01 24.11.04 24.11.05 24.11.06
- Gipiškis2024Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems62.19.09 62.23.01
- IBM2025AI Risk Atlas65.07.02 65.18.01
- InfoComm2023Cataloguing LLM Evaluations43.02.12
- Ji2023AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey34.01.04 34.03.02
- Li2025A Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World Incidents66.03.00 66.03.01 66.03.03 66.04.04 66.09.06
- Liu2024Trustworthy LLMs: A Survey and Guideline for Evaluating Large Language Models’ Alignment30.01.00 30.01.01 30.01.02 30.07.02
- Marchal2024Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data64.02.01
- Nah2023Generative AI and ChatGPT: Applications, Challenges, and AI-Human Collaboration33.02.00 33.02.01 33.02.02
- NIST2024Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile48.02.00
- Stanley2024Emerging Risks and Mitigations for Public Chatbots: LILAC v169.01.00 69.01.01 69.01.02 69.01.03
- TC2602024AI Safety Governance Framework45.01.05 45.02.02 45.02.06
- Tse2025Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0)72.05.07
- Uuk2025A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI61.02.15 61.02.31
- Wang2025A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy74.01.06
- Weidinger2021Ethical and social risks of harm from language models17.03.00 17.03.01 17.03.02 17.03.03 17.05.01
- Weidinger2022Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models16.03.01
- Weidinger2023Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems18.02.00 18.02.01 18.02.02 18.02.03
Ev IDs of the entries consolidated into this risk in the MIT AI Risk Repository (V4); the source sheet row appears on hover.
Framework crosswalk
Every framework item mapped to this risk. Items marked partial overlap only in part; definitions appear on hover where the source licence permits.
2- A.4 ISO/IEC 23894 Annex A A.4
- A.9 ISO/IEC 23894 Annex A A.9
2- A.6.2.4 ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A A.6.2.4
- A.8.2 ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A A.8.2
2- ibm-function-calling-hallucination Function calling hallucination
- ibm-hallucination Hallucination
1- AISubtech-15.1.19 Integrity: Hallucinations / Misinformation
1- GENAI.2 Confabulation
1- LLM09:2025 Misinformation
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