hallucinate
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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
Since AI tools are known to hallucinate, or make up information, workers should demonstrate that they check the information they’re given and don’t always rely on the same offerings.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 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
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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
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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
"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 can use the camera to describe its surroundings – sometimes - but it hallucinated a lot.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
But they say other types of irregular speech, such as audio from the elderly or nonnative language speakers, could also result in hallucinated text.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 26, 2024
“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
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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
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
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
“Jesus,” he muttered privately, “now he’s hallucinating on me.”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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