hallucinate
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But some users find that much like the models they’re built on—which can hallucinate, misinterpret or even commit spontaneous acts of cybercrime—their assistants, too, can behave unpredictably.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
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
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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
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What about making real that hallucinated series with Cillian Murphy?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
And then ‘oh, no, it hallucinated and deleted all my emails’ or worse,” said CrowdStrike Chief Technology Officer Elia Zaitsev.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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
It can use the camera to describe its surroundings – sometimes - but it hallucinated a lot.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
It was as if she were afraid she had hallucinated him and needed proof to the contrary.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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His parents were told Riley was heading towards liver failure, and they watched as his condition deteriorated to the point where he was delirious and hallucinating.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
When generative AI systems give incorrect answers, people often describe the problem as AI "hallucinating at us," meaning the technology produces false information that users may mistakenly believe.
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
"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
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
For a moment I think I’m hallucinating, because she walks out.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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