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Hallucinate

//həˈl(j)uːsɪneɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination. ambitransitive
  2. 2
    perceive what is not there; have illusions wordnet
  3. 3
    To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data.

    "In case you were wondering, the yahoo url above doesn’t actually exist, the model just hallucinated it."

Etymology

First attested in 1604; borrowed from Latin hallūcinātus, alternative form of alūcinātus, perfect active participle of alucinor (“to dream”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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