hallucinate
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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
By their nature, AI models hallucinate and generate inconsistent answers—so why are they suddenly useful enough to get real work done?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
AI tools are known to hallucinate, or make up information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
One glance at his dumbstruck face was all I needed to know that I didn’t just hallucinate everything.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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
"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 hallucinated that my actual finish was the same as the target finish time it originally predicted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
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
It was as if she were afraid she had hallucinated him and needed proof to the contrary.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Meghan Cliffel was eight months postpartum from the birth of her second daughter when she began hallucinating.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
Participants in the second schizophrenia group, those without recent hallucinations, showed brain responses that fell between the healthy group and the hallucinating group.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 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
Hazel blinked to make sure she wasn’t hallucinating.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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