When someone sees something that isn't there, people often refer to the experience as a hallucination. Hallucinations occur when your sensory perception does not correspond to external stimuli.

When generative AI systems produce false information, this is often framed as AI "hallucinating at us"—generating errors that we might mistakenly accept as true. But a new study argues we should pay ...

Cops across the US are moving to embrace AI-written police reports — and according to The Associated Press, experts are sounding the alarm. The AI tool, called “Draft One,” was announced by the police ...

Lisa joined CNET after more than 20 years as a reporter and editor. Her coverage of AI ranged from a hands-on with OpenAI's empathetic Advanced Voice Mode to in-depth explainers on LLMs, ...

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...

If you’ve ever asked ChatGPT a question only to receive an answer that reads well but is completely wrong, then you’ve witnessed a hallucination. Some hallucinations can be downright funny (i.e. the ...

Last week, we looked in detail at the scientific implausibility of group hallucinations. That is, since hallucinations are personal mental events, groups of people can’t hallucinate the same thing in ...