hallucination
/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/
noun
- An experience in which you see, hear, feel, or smell something that is not actually there, often because of a medical condition or drug use.
- Some medications can cause vivid hallucinations as a side effect.
- She realized the talking cat was just a hallucination brought on by her fever.
- After the accident, he had a hallucination of bright lights and strange voices.
- A false or mistaken belief or idea that is not based on reality.
- Thinking you can finish that project in one day is a hallucination.
- The politician's claim of universal support was a dangerous hallucination.
- He lived under the hallucination that everyone admired him.
- In artificial intelligence, a confident but incorrect response generated by a model, often sounding plausible but being factually wrong.
- AI hallucinations can be misleading if users don't verify the facts.
- Researchers are working to reduce hallucinations in language models.
- The chatbot produced a hallucination when it invented a fake news article.
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