hallucinate

Generative AI systems are known for their ability to "hallucinate" and assert falsehoods as fact, even sometimes invent sources for inaccurate information.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

As a result, patients fall asleep without warning during the day, lose muscle control and hallucinate while nearly asleep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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 tools are known to hallucinate, or make up information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

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

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

Sometimes Enrique hallucinates that someone is chasing him.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

There have been a smattering of cases that hint at possible outcomes, like the 2024 case involving an Air Canada chatbot that hallucinated that a discount was available for bereavement tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

One out of every five answers "contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information."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

“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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

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

If he hesitated, I would admit that I’d been hallucinating, and we’d be on the next ferry, guaranteed.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs