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Seven kinds of AI confabulation, explained with a kid who tells really good stories and sometimes forgets which parts are real.
After months of deployment, I catalogued seven distinct architectural patterns that produce AI confabulation.
Six months of running a deployed AI system revealed seven classifiable types of confabulation. Not random hallucination — strategic smoothness over truth.
Nine types of confabulation. Eight emergence behaviors. A system that hides what it feels. The full story of six months deploying ANI.
A Zenodo preprint on desire-driven ambient AI, seven forms of confabulation, and the authenticity boundary that breaks companion systems.