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awry

adjective as in off course; amiss

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The report released Thursday attempts to explain how things went awry.

“There’s just too many loose ends and too many things that could go awry,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond School of Law.

This study provides insight into exactly how that internal map in our brains works - and what happens when it goes awry.

From BBC

Two hundred fifty years in, the American experiment has gone horribly awry, although there is plenty of controversy surrounding the “why” of it.

They label the frequent mistakes and fabrications produced by AI bots as “hallucinations,” which suggests that the bots have perceptions that may have gone slightly awry.

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