What is a Harmful Misinformation AI Hallucination?

A Harmful Misinformation AI Hallucination is when an artificial intelligence model generates and presents false, fabricated, or misleading information that has the potential to cause tangible harm to individuals, groups, or society. Harmful Misinformation is one type of AI Hallucination.

• Chance of Occurrence: Less frequent but highly impactful.
• Consequences: Defamation, severe reputational damage, personal distress, potential legal action against AI developers or users, spread of dangerous narratives.
• Mitigation Steps: Robust content moderation and safety filters; fine-tuning with adversarial examples to identify and prevent harmful outputs; strong ethical guidelines in development; rapid human intervention for reported incidents.