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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-nayt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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As a result, patients fall asleep without warning during the day, lose muscle control and hallucinate while nearly asleep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

My fever gets worse, and during one terrible evening I start to hallucinate.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

The different types of AI-inspired losses range from bodily injury and property damage—caused by, say, an error-prone factory robot—to copyright infringement, unauthorized data disclosures, hallucinated errors and regulatory penalties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

It can use the camera to describe its surroundings – sometimes - but it hallucinated a lot.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024

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

Followed by dozens of masons and carpenters, as if she had contracted her husband’s hallucinating fever, Úrsula fixed the position of light and heat and distributed space without the least sense of its limitations.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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