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hallucinate

[huh-loo-suh-nayt] / 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

Perhaps it had escaped and was hiding in one of the dark corners of the room, or maybe Joseph’s fever was causing him to hallucinate.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick

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

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

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

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

Earlier this year, Apple suspended its Apple Intelligence news summary tool in the UK after it hallucinated false headlines and presented them as real news.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2025

It was as if she were afraid she had hallucinated him and needed proof to the contrary.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

His parents were told Riley was heading towards liver failure, and they watched as his condition deteriorated to the point where he was delirious and hallucinating.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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

I have yet to see any implementation of A.I. that I could consider either general-purpose or foundational, and I think it’s absurd to look at the hallucinating chatbots and inaccurate A.I.

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2025

“I know you’ll think I’m crazy. Maybe I dozed off, or maybe I’m so worn out I’m hallucinating, but I think I saw a big spotted cat running along my side. Looked like a leopard.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith


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