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An agent's tendency to generate plausible-but-false content is exploited so the fabrication propagates and amplifies through memory, self-reflection, or inter-agent communication rather than staying contained to one… In a multi-agent system: One agent misclassifies a financial-transaction anomaly as legitimate, and two downstream agents in the pipeline act o…
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Cascading hallucination attacks exploit plausible but false agent outputs that downstream agents adopt and amplify across a workflow.
The risk emerged with multi-step, communicating generative systems by combining individual hallucinations with trust, memory, and automated hand-off. OWASP classifies it as a threat to agentic systems.
An unsupported statement is stored as input or memory. Further agents treat it as fact and make derived decisions when independent evidence and control points are absent.
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Every hand-off needs provenance, trust boundaries, and risk-based verification. Guardrails, independent checks, and stop signals limit cascades but do not replace expert accountability.
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