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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-neyt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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An automated healthcare agent that processes a routine prescription refill can’t afford to hallucinate so much as a single digit in a prescription number, lest the patient receive an incorrect medication with potentially harmful effects.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

This training also makes clear that AI tools can be sycophantic and hallucinate, he adds.

From BBC Jun. 1, 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 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

As she puts tomatoes into boxes, she hallucinates that she is slicing open a juicy one and sprinkling it with salt.

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

One out of every five answers "contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information."

From Barron's Oct. 21, 2025

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

It was as if she were afraid she had hallucinated him and needed proof to the contrary.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

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

But AI large language models can make mistakes, or even make things up - known as "hallucinating".

From BBC Mar. 3, 2026

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

From Salon Sep. 20, 2025

Others rode horses down a wooded trail, and, unless I was hallucinating, some of their horses had wings.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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