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as in visions
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
were the voices real, or merely a hallucination?
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as in delusions
a false idea or belief
the common hallucination that gluttony during the holiday season doesn't have consequences
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Recent Examples of hallucinations
For details about how to discern and handle AI hallucinations, see the link here.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Organizations can use their own real-time, proprietary data to train RAG models, resulting in more accurate and relevant outputs while simultaneously reducing the potential for AI hallucinations—when AI returns incorrect or misleading information.
—Shane Buckley, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
But that benefit depends heavily on Copilot understanding both your question and the answer fully, without retreating to hallucinations that could have no bearing on the actual game.
—Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
The Risks Of Independence Agentic AI introduces concerns beyond the already familiar issues of bias and hallucinations.
—Brian Neely, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
These can include hallucinations, confusion, and unusual behavior.
—Rosanna Sutherby, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 12 Mar. 2025
Already, and despite its shortfalls such as hallucinations – when chatbots make up inexistent facts, and sycophantic behavior – when the bot gives a particular answer to elicit the user’s approval, AI has been shown to outperform CEO’s on a range of tasks.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
The jury's out on whether that's true — hallucinations are an especially sticky problem.
—Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 9 Mar. 2025
On Thursday, Anthropic announced Citations, a new API feature that helps Claude models avoid confabulations (also called hallucinations) by linking their responses directly to source documents.
—Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Organizations can use their own real-time, proprietary data to train RAG models, resulting in more accurate and relevant outputs while simultaneously reducing the potential for AI hallucinations—when AI returns incorrect or misleading information.
—Shane Buckley, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
But that benefit depends heavily on Copilot understanding both your question and the answer fully, without retreating to hallucinations that could have no bearing on the actual game.
—Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
The Risks Of Independence Agentic AI introduces concerns beyond the already familiar issues of bias and hallucinations.
—Brian Neely, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
These can include hallucinations, confusion, and unusual behavior.
—Rosanna Sutherby, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 12 Mar. 2025
Already, and despite its shortfalls such as hallucinations – when chatbots make up inexistent facts, and sycophantic behavior – when the bot gives a particular answer to elicit the user’s approval, AI has been shown to outperform CEO’s on a range of tasks.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
The jury's out on whether that's true — hallucinations are an especially sticky problem.
—Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 9 Mar. 2025
On Thursday, Anthropic announced Citations, a new API feature that helps Claude models avoid confabulations (also called hallucinations) by linking their responses directly to source documents.
—Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinations
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Sometimes dysfunction in the brain can lead to mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, which is characterized by delusions and disordered thinking, among other symptoms, that can be debilitating.—
Jeanna Bryner,
Scientific American,
18 Mar. 2025
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The guests are just monkeys with delusions of grandeur and civilization.—
Joe Joyce,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
14 Mar. 2025
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Maybe some harbor illusions of being able to play.—
Kevin Acee,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
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The storytelling tour de force goes way beyond illusions, however.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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Vaccine hesitancy, myths and misinformation circulated even before the rise of internet and social media propelled their spread.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
15 Mar. 2025
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While there are myths that suggest otherwise, whiskey and other types of alcohol are not recommended for treating a cold.—
Amelia MacIntyre,
Verywell Health,
14 Mar. 2025
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Beginning this week, attempting to connect your phone to a second-gen Chromecast or Chromecast Audio results in untrusted device or authentication errors.—
Ryan Whitwam,
Ars Technica,
11 Mar. 2025
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Check your credit report for errors One way to quickly increase your credit score is to review your credit report for any errors that could be negatively impacting you.—
Dan Avery,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Hallucinations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinations. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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