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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-nayt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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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

“I didn’t hallucinate all of that? And—and you saw everything, too?”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

If an agent hallucinates, Arcade can catch the error and correct it, allowing the workflow to continue, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

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

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

"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

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

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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