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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-nayt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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When Yayoi Kusama was 10 years old, she began to hallucinate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

AI systems can "hallucinate", inventing plausible but incorrect answers.

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

It explains why AI hallucinates and makes other mistakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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

Last year, a Los Angeles attorney was fined for submitting a filing full of legal citations that were hallucinated by ChatGPT.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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

Citra awoke in a cabin, and for a moment thought she might have hallucinated all of it.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

A hallucinating encyclopedia may not be exactly what you’re looking for when you’re doing research, but that’s what writer Stephen Harrison found when he dug into Elon Musk’s new A.I.-powered Grokipedia.

From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2025

She felt such a surge of optimism that she wondered for a second whether she’d been hallucinating when she saw Hiroshima.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata




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