confabulation
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Current AI health tools frequently produce hallucinations, confabulations, and baseless warnings that can endanger patients and their medical decisions.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
Responses to the same query that contained vastly different meanings earned high entropy scores, signaling possible confabulations.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 19, 2024
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 • Jun. 19, 2023
Almost thirty years later, some people cling to these confabulations despite the existence of a simpler and more convincing explanation for Maxwell’s death.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019
The need for isolation, the grandiosity of the confabulations, the disorientation and confusion—these were all eerily reminiscent of his uncle’s descent.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Gene
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