confabulation
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This isn’t the same as confabulation, or making a false memory, because what is recalled really happened.
For instance, AI sometimes invents sentences or phrases that are not in the original text, potentially creating false information — a phenomenon AI scientists call “hallucination” or “confabulation.”
From Los Angeles Times
Responses to the same query that contained vastly different meanings earned high entropy scores, signaling possible confabulations.
From Science Magazine
A little-studied neurological disorder, confabulation is a memory error that generates false, fabricated, or distorted memories.
From Washington Times
Perhaps Amazon and Riley were emboldened by these examples or energized by the idea of transcending them, because this series has the courage of its confabulations.
From New York Times
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