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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-neyt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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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

Since AI tools are known to hallucinate, or make up information, workers should demonstrate that they check the information they’re given and don’t always rely on the same offerings.

From MarketWatch Apr. 11, 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

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

The agents also hallucinated reams of incoherent commands and text and were sloppy and did not cover their tracks well.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

It hallucinated that my actual finish was the same as the target finish time it originally predicted.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 3, 2025

One out of every five answers "contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information."

From Barron's Oct. 21, 2025

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

He trotted past where I stood beneath the tree, his bare feet slapping the walk in the silence, going for a few feet and then the high, hallucinated cry beginning again.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Meghan Cliffel was eight months postpartum from the birth of her second daughter when she began hallucinating.

From BBC Aug. 19, 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

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

When he returned, he was boiling up with a fever and hallucinating.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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