hallucinate

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

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

The fact that no one made it, that it’s the creation of a machine that hallucinates in exchange for electricity, only intensifies the sick, empty feeling the track leaves behind.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

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

But Hancock’s declaration included three hallucinated references apparently generated by ChatGPT, the AI bot he had consulted while writing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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

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

Meghan Cliffel was eight months postpartum from the birth of her second daughter when she began hallucinating.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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

If he hesitated, I would admit that I’d been hallucinating, and we’d be on the next ferry, guaranteed.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs