hallucination

1. (artificial intelligence) A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence; a confabulation.Examples: "Chatbots even forget that they are a bot and experience "hallucinations", Meta's description for when a bot confidently says something that is not true."; "Hallucinations are about adhering to the truth; when A.I. systems get confused, they have a bad habit of making things up rather than admitting their difficulties."; "It may tell you that the official currency of Switzerland is the euro (it’s actually the Swiss franc) or that Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County could not only jump but talk. A.I. researchers call this generation of untruths “hallucination.”"countableuncountable