hallucinate
/həˈl(j)uːsɪneɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
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.
verb
To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data.
Example Sentences
- "In case you were wondering, the yahoo url above doesn’t actually exist, the model just hallucinated it."
- "Despite maintaining plausible general linguistic capabilities, dialogue models are still unable to fully discern facts and may instead hallucinate factually invalid information. […] Broadly speaking, we say that a neural dialogue system is guilty of hallucinating whenever it generates a factual sentence that is not supported by a valid path in a k-hop subgraph G k c ⊂ G of the original KG anchored around a context entity c. […] The first module flags and masks out hallucinated entities in an existing response and can be trained offline."
- "Rankin sanctioned Ayala $3,000 and kicked him off the lawsuit after the lawyer admitted incorporating the hallucinated AI-generated cases in the brief. Morgan and Goody were sanctioned $1,000 each."