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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