hallucinate
Americanverb (used without object)
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to see or hear things that do not exist outside the mind; have hallucinations.
People who ingested this fungus often hallucinated, seeing colored lights or hearing voices.
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Computers, Digital Technology. (of a machine learning program) to produce false information contrary to the intent of the user and present it as if true and factual.
verb (used with object)
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to see or hear (things that do not exist outside the mind); have hallucinations about.
In dramatic moments, the character hallucinates a very funny animated bear.
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Archaic. to affect with hallucinations.
verb
Other Word Forms
- hallucinator noun
- nonhallucinated adjective
- unhallucinated adjective
- unhallucinating adjective
Etymology
Origin of hallucinate
First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin hallūcinātus “wandered mentally” past participle of hallūcinārī, variant of (h)ālūcinārī “to dream, talk idly, wander mentally”
Example Sentences
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The compression, however, can cause the model to hallucinate, or make mistakes.
From Barron's
Last year, a Los Angeles attorney was fined for submitting a filing full of legal citations that were hallucinated by ChatGPT.
From Los Angeles Times
"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
“Does the Department of War want something like that in their supply chain, so that it could hallucinate, it could corrupt models that are used by defense contractors who are building weapons systems of airplanes?”
And user trust is still an ongoing issue, given the potential for AI chatbots to hallucinate or otherwise give out bad information.
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