hallucinate

Example Sentences

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“Does the Department of War want something like that in their supply chain, so that it could hallucinate, it could corrupt models that are used by defense contractors who are building weapons systems of airplanes?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Generative artificial intelligence is also still prone to error and may "hallucinate" elements that were not in the original image, Kanoulas added.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

What we don’t know yet is when they hallucinate, or when they veer from guidelines or recommendations.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

“They hallucinate and have trouble with reasoning,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 29, 2025

One glance at his dumbstruck face was all I needed to know that I didn’t just hallucinate everything.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu