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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-neyt] / həˈlu səˌneɪt /


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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

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

What about making real that hallucinated series with Cillian Murphy?

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

It hallucinated citations and got facts wrong, and you risked looking like a fool in front of a professor for trusting it.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 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One out of every five answers "contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information."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

At the same time, ChatGPT doesn’t necessarily promise to provide accurate information, with its reputation for hallucinating.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2025

One is that they sometimes invent information - a failing known as "hallucinating".

From BBC May 13, 2025

Hazel blinked to make sure she wasn’t hallucinating.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan




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