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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-neyt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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But new research suggests there may be a more concerning issue emerging: humans can begin to "hallucinate with AI."

From Science Daily May 11, 2026

As they do, however, experts have warned their potential to make things up - or "hallucinate" as the industry describes it - could intensify.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

AI tools are known to hallucinate, or make up information.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2026

Since AI tools are known to hallucinate, or make up information, workers should demonstrate that they check the information they’re given and don’t always rely on the same offerings.

From MarketWatch Apr. 11, 2026

Perhaps it had escaped and was hiding in one of the dark corners of the room, or maybe Joseph’s fever was causing him to hallucinate.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick

Google said Gemini hallucinates less than other models and that it is working to improve it.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

"This means that visual information about things happening in the outside world becomes less accessible to our consciousness. To fill this gap in the puzzle, our brain inserts fragments from memory -- it hallucinates."

From Science Daily Feb. 15, 2026

What good is AI that analyzes financial data if it hallucinates numbers?

From MarketWatch Nov. 3, 2025

The puppeteer even hallucinates seeing Eric standing next to him, wisecracking and poking holes in his ego - because "puppets say the things we can't".

From BBC May 26, 2024

Sometimes Enrique hallucinates that someone is chasing him.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

It hallucinated citations and got facts wrong, and you risked looking like a fool in front of a professor for trusting it.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

"Many of these manipulated images have the hallmarks of imperfect AI-generation: odd angles, blurred details, and hallucinated features that don't align with reality," Africk told AFP.

From Barron's Mar. 9, 2026

Earlier this year, Apple suspended its Apple Intelligence news summary tool in the UK after it hallucinated false headlines and presented them as real news.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2025

But they say other types of irregular speech, such as audio from the elderly or nonnative language speakers, could also result in hallucinated text.

From Science Magazine Apr. 26, 2024

He trotted past where I stood beneath the tree, his bare feet slapping the walk in the silence, going for a few feet and then the high, hallucinated cry beginning again.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

"This risk of a model making errors or hallucinating cannot be fully avoided in any technical way," said Munich Re's head of AI insurance, Michael von Gablenz.

From Barron's Mar. 15, 2026

Participants in the second schizophrenia group, those without recent hallucinations, showed brain responses that fell between the healthy group and the hallucinating group.

From Science Daily Jan. 23, 2026

I have yet to see any implementation of A.I. that I could consider either general-purpose or foundational, and I think it’s absurd to look at the hallucinating chatbots and inaccurate A.I.

From Slate Nov. 22, 2025

At the same time, ChatGPT doesn’t necessarily promise to provide accurate information, with its reputation for hallucinating.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2025

“I know you’ll think I’m crazy. Maybe I dozed off, or maybe I’m so worn out I’m hallucinating, but I think I saw a big spotted cat running along my side. Looked like a leopard.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith




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