# GenAI Illusion of Intelligence The illusion of intelligence is the mistaken belief that skillful language generation by AI reflects true understanding or knowledge, rather than advanced pattern recognition and user prompting. Because of this, people reading [[GenAI Hallucination|hallucinations]] produced are not careful enough and does not double-check when they should have. --- Bibliography: - [GenAI is not stupid, but it is ignorant - coda.io/@senteadvisors](https://coda.io/@senteadvisors/the-sente-playbook/genai-is-not-stupid-but-it-is-ignorant-19)