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
“I didn’t hallucinate all of that? And—and you saw everything, too?”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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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
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What about making real that hallucinated series with Cillian Murphy?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
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
One out of every five answers "contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information."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
“The Dauntless serum gives hallucinated realities, Candor’s gives the truth, Amity’s gives peace, Erudite’s gives death—” At this, Tris visibly shudders, but Johanna continues as if it didn’t happen.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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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
Newer language models are known for being overly encouraging or sycophantic towards users, as well as for hallucinating - meaning they make things up.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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
“Jesus,” he muttered privately, “now he’s hallucinating on me.”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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