AI models can confidently generate information that looks plausible but is false, misleading or entirely fabricated. Here's everything you need to know about hallucinations. Barbara is a tech writer ...

Hallucinations are unreal sensory experiences, such as hearing or seeing something that is not there. Any of our five senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) can be involved. Most often, when we ...

Generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot make stuff up all the time. Here’s how to rein in those lying tendencies and make better use of the tools. Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot, ...

When an Air Canada customer service chatbot assured a passenger that they qualified for a bereavement refund—a policy that didn't exist—nobody suspected anything. The passenger booked their ticket ...

Jo Kavaliauskas once saw human bodies hanging from a meat hook, an image so real they could escape it only by shutting their eyes and going to sleep on the couch. Aliens and demons sometimes appear ...

If you've used ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity or any other generative AI tool, you've probably seen them make things up with complete confidence. This is called an AI hallucination - ...