hallucinate
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I set up this new session by harnessing the same sycophantic, people-pleasing tendencies that can make AI hallucinate in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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
Perhaps it had escaped and was hiding in one of the dark corners of the room, or maybe Joseph’s fever was causing him to hallucinate.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
The fact that no one made it, that it’s the creation of a machine that hallucinates in exchange for electricity, only intensifies the sick, empty feeling the track leaves behind.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
It explains why AI hallucinates and makes other mistakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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
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One out of every five answers "contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information."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
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
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
But AI large language models can make mistakes, or even make things up - known as "hallucinating".
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 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
I’m still not entirely convinced that I was hallucinating the night the floor of my hospital room transformed into a carpet of writhing snakes.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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