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hallucination

[huh-loo-suh-ney-shuhn] / həˌlu səˈneɪ ʃən /


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Denmark's Sissal takes a similar sound, with a throwback Euro-bop called Hallucination that effortlessly evokes two-time Eurovision winner Loreen.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

Hallucination: A well-known phenomenon in large language models, in which the system provides an answer that is factually incorrect, irrelevant or nonsensical, because of limitations in its training data and architecture.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023

We pass a restaurant called The Ultimate Hallucination and the Chimay makes this seem very profound.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2013

Hallucination again, the decade's leitmotiv of illusion: now you see it, now you don't.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hallucination is the apparent perception of that which does not exist or is not present to the senses, as the seeing of specters or of reptiles in delirium tremens.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin




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