Hallucination (artificial intelligence)

When artificial intelligence systems are used, they produce results. Using the current large language models, these results are based on statistics. This also means that there is a certain chance that result is wrong. Such wrong results are called hallucination or mirage. This is like in medicine: A hallucination is seeing, or feeling something that is not there. A mirage is an optical illusion. Other terms for this effect include confabulation and delusion. These terms were chosen because they have similar meanings than those used in medicine and psychology.

The artificial intelligence, will present this false or misleading information as a fact.

Example

A video of the Glenfinnan Viaduct in Scotland generated by Sora, incorrectly showing: a second track, trains running on the right instead of the left, a second chimney on its interpretation of the train The Jacobite, inconsistent carriage lengths, unnatural amounts of visual noise, and a carriage bending along its length as it rounds the turn.

The real Glenfinnan Viaduct with the real The Jacobite on it