as in to see
to see or sense something or someone that is not really there; to have hallucinations
The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever.
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Recent Examples of hallucinate
That’s a lesson two California law firms learned this week when they were hit with $31,000 in sanctions for filing legal briefs citing non-existent cases that had been hallucinated by an LLM.
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Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
OpenAI’s newest reasoning model, o3, released in April, seems to hallucinate more than twice as often as o1, according to the model card.
—Hayden Field,jonathan Vanian,jennifer Elias, CNBC, 14 May 2025
Open source models hallucinated the most, with 21 percent of the dependencies linking to non-existent libraries.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
Read: The man out to prove how dumb AI still is
To help temper—and harness—the tendency to hallucinate, newer AI systems are being positioned as collaborative tools that can help judge ideas.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025
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Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
OpenAI’s newest reasoning model, o3, released in April, seems to hallucinate more than twice as often as o1, according to the model card.
—Hayden Field,jonathan Vanian,jennifer Elias, CNBC, 14 May 2025
Open source models hallucinated the most, with 21 percent of the dependencies linking to non-existent libraries.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
Read: The man out to prove how dumb AI still is
To help temper—and harness—the tendency to hallucinate, newer AI systems are being positioned as collaborative tools that can help judge ideas.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinate
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The South African government has also been a vocal defender of Palestinians in Gaza who have seen their homes destroyed and access to food cut off by the Israeli military, a position that’s frustrated Trump administration officials.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
22 May 2025
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But the company said shoppers may still see price hikes as early as July.—
Serenah McKay,
Arkansas Online,
22 May 2025
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Others would be daydreaming or watching a train pass by.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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Others will spend time daydreaming or being lost in a fantasy world.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
28 May 2025
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Finally, imagine tucking your anxiety into a cozy box and carrying it gently in a small bag slung over your shoulder, wrote Beck.—
Ashton Jackson,
CNBC,
30 May 2025
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Olivia Jan, who worked on the Grassland Opera fragrance imagined the scent of the herbaceous orbexilum stipulatum flower.—
Nicole Mowbray,
CNN Money,
30 May 2025
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The entities seemed to sense his wish to keep dreaming.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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For example, one retiree might dream of traveling the world, while another might look forward to spending more time with grandchildren.—
Andrew Rosen,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Instead of a revolution, this new approach contemplated a middle way between capitalism and socialism, one premised on a cooperative relationship between workers and management.—
Time,
Time,
29 May 2025
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Though the film doesn’t provide a satisfactory resolution to these threads, the time the audience spends contemplating them is mostly enjoyable.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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Adoptees who could only fantasize about their birth families are now identifying them through DNA testing and chatting with them online.—
Barbara Demick,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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Others even fantasized about how Corum might be involved if the couple were to take their relationship to the next level.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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The Chiefs’ owner can visualize the potential next chapter of his franchise, one that could begin in just six years.—
Nate Taylor,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Hence, musicians build skill while just visualizing playing.—
Stefan Falk,
CNBC,
30 May 2025
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Managers and their co-workers need to work hard to establish the link between the team goals and the firms vision and show how their work can effect the performance of the organization.—
Andrew Mawson,
Forbes,
27 Sep. 2024
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In 2019, under the guidance of Assembly Chair Felix Rivera, the Assembly hired Laurie Wolf to facilitate a series of three strategic visioning meetings to better define our goals for years 2019-2021.—
Anchorage Daily News,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 Mar. 2020
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“Hallucinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinate. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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