hallucinate
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“The problem with large language models is, the more questions you ask, the higher the probability that it’s going to hallucinate once,” Salazar said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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 systems can "hallucinate", inventing plausible but incorrect answers.
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
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
What about making real that hallucinated series with Cillian Murphy?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
And then ‘oh, no, it hallucinated and deleted all my emails’ or worse,” said CrowdStrike Chief Technology Officer Elia Zaitsev.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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One out of every five answers "contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information."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
In that state of hallucinated lucidity, not only did they see the images of their own dreams, but some saw the images dreamed by others.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"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
"I had to call my sisters to say, 'Did I hear this right or am I hallucinating?'"
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025
At the same time, ChatGPT doesn’t necessarily promise to provide accurate information, with its reputation for hallucinating.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2025
Maybe he’d been hallucinating, or his martyrdom fantasies had gotten the better of him.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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