hallucinate

Etymology

From Latin hallūcinātus, alternate form of alūcinātus, from alūcināri (to dream).

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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.
2. (artificial intelligence, of a model) To produce factually invalid information; to interpolate.
   Despite maintaining plausible general linguistic capabilities, dialogue models are still unable to fully discern facts and may instead hallucinate factually invalid information. 2021-09-14, Nouha Dziri, Andrea Madotto, Osmar Zaiane, Avishek Joey Bose, “Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding”, in arXiv:2104.08455 [cs], →DOI