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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-nayt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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When Yayoi Kusama was 10 years old, she began to hallucinate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

As they do, however, experts have warned their potential to make things up - or "hallucinate" as the industry describes it - could intensify.

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

Sometimes Enrique hallucinates that someone is chasing him.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

It responded, “Honestly, yes,” followed by some hallucinated statistics that it took back after I challenged them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Last year, a Los Angeles attorney was fined for submitting a filing full of legal citations that were hallucinated by ChatGPT.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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One out of every five answers "contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information."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

In that state of hallucinated lucidity, not only did they see the images of their own dreams, but some saw the images dreamed by others.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"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

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

To prevent such AI from hallucinating, "you need to make sure it's penalised in its training, if it gives you something that doesn't exist," says Prof MacMahon.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

By the time they passed the piers along the San Francisco Embarcadero, she felt so woozy she thought she was hallucinating.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan


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