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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-neyt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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An automated healthcare agent that processes a routine prescription refill can’t afford to hallucinate so much as a single digit in a prescription number, lest the patient receive an incorrect medication with potentially harmful effects.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

This training also makes clear that AI tools can be sycophantic and hallucinate, he adds.

From BBC Jun. 1, 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

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

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

"Many of these manipulated images have the hallmarks of imperfect AI-generation: odd angles, blurred details, and hallucinated features that don't align with reality," Africk told AFP.

From Barron's Mar. 9, 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

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

It can use the camera to describe its surroundings – sometimes - but it hallucinated a lot.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2024

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

He must be hallucinating, creating pleasant images to distract himself from the inevitable.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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