hallucinate

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The compression, however, can cause the model to hallucinate, or make mistakes.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

“Does the Department of War want something like that in their supply chain, so that it could hallucinate, it could corrupt models that are used by defense contractors who are building weapons systems of airplanes?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Especially as someone who hasn’t been back in a long time—when I see these images, they almost make me hallucinate.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2026

“They hallucinate and have trouble with reasoning,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 29, 2025

One glance at his dumbstruck face was all I needed to know that I didn’t just hallucinate everything.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu