Stop Calling Every AI Miss a Hallucination
Summary
The article argues that labeling every AI miss as a hallucination is overly broad. It distinguishes failure types such as omitted scope, default fill-in, and blended inference, advocating precise diagnosis and fixes. It also introduces VDG (Verified / Deduction / Gap) as a framework to separate what is grounded, inferred, assumed, and missing, improving debugging and reliability of AI outputs.