hallucinate
verb
hal·lu·ci·nate
hə-ˈlü-sə-ˌnāt 
hallucinated; hallucinating
1
: to affect with visions or imaginary perceptions
2
: to perceive or experience as a hallucination
: to have hallucinations
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The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever.
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Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2025
He is hallucinated, by a woman under the effects of the drug Mandrax.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Jan. 2025
Models like these are also prone to occasionally hallucinating false facts and doing so with a confident tone.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
In other words, bad data in means a corrupt model that hallucinates or is otherwise unreliable for generating training data for robotic AI.
—Dave Altavilla, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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hallucinate
verb
hal·lu·ci·nate
hə-ˈlüs-ə-ˌnāt
hallucinated; hallucinating
: to have hallucinations or experience as a hallucination
Medical Definition
hallucinate
verb
hal·lu·ci·nate
hə-ˈlüs-ᵊn-ˌāt
hallucinated; hallucinating
1
: to affect with visions or imaginary perceptions
the patient is not hallucinated
2
: to perceive or experience as a hallucination
may hallucinate monsters or attackers—M. J. Horowitz
M. J. Horowitz
: to have hallucinations
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