In order to understand what it means to hallucinate, we first must gain an appreciation of what hallucinogens do inside the brain. One of the best-studied hallucinogenic drugs is LSD. In the brain, ...

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 - ...

What springs from the 'mind' of an AI can sometimes be out of left field. gremlin/iStock via Getty Images When someone sees something that isn’t there, people often refer to the experience as a ...

AI hallucination is often misread as creativity. This explains why it’s a symptom of optimization fatigue, and what that ...

As large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and open source alternatives become integral to modern software development workflows – from coding assistance to automated documentation ...

Besides AI hallucinations, there are AI meta-hallucinations. Those are especially bad in a mental health context. Here's the ...

A hallucination is the experience of sensing something that isn't really present in the environment but is instead created by the mind. Hallucinations can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted, ...

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 ...