hallucination
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"For a young person, if you don't have what we call 'foundational knowledge' it might be hard for you to figure out whether something is a hallucination or whether it's genuine."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
An episode is prison slang for a severe hallucination.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“The GPT 5.6 series tends to ground itself in real data when doing knowledge work. It’s better at citing where that data came from. It’s a little more reliable on the hallucination front,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Scaled Cognition addresses AI hallucination with a model that predicts structured objects, such as programs and system queries, in addition to token streams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
If it is a hallucination, let it be.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Non-motor symptoms include depression, anxiety, apathy, hallucinations, constipation, orthostatic hypotension, sleep disorders, loss of sense of smell, and cognitive impairments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Hypnopompic hallucinations are what specialists call the unreal things people see or hear during the transition from sleep to waking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Instead, they have put forth a defence of insanity, arguing that Clancy had hallucinations and delusions after giving birth to her youngest child.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Her larger-than-life paintings, sculptures and installations -- inspired by vivid hallucinations -- sold for millions of dollars and packed out top galleries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“At first they thought bipolar one, but when the delusions got increasingly psychotic, and I started to have auditory hallucinations, they changed my diagnosis to schizoaffective.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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