Comment by dougabug

No, your constant output example isn’t what people are talking about with “hallucination.” It’s not about destroying information from the input, in the sense that it you asked me a question and I just ignored you, I’m not in general hallucinating. Hallucinating is more about sampling from a distribution which extends beyond what is factually true or actually exists, such as citing a non-existent paper, or inventing a historical figure.