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Why AI sounds certain even when it’s wrong and why we believe it

Ananya Podder

/ TIMESOFINDIA.COM /

Updated: Jun 23, 2026, 17:03 IST

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Hallucinations have recently been used to refer to a typical behavioral pattern that Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models exhibit.

AI hallucinations occur when a model generates a completely fabricated response.

The plausible yet false answers have no ground in reality, or training data.

The most peculiar aspect of these hallucinations is the tone: the response, though misleading and invented, sounds completely confident. These responses show no shred of uncertainty, which often makes users inclined to believe the misinformation.

From recommending users put glue on their pizza to making up summer reading lists of books that do not exist (which made its way to a newspaper! ), AI hallucinations have been the subject of internet virality innumerable times over the past few years.

This strange phenomenon warrants dissection.

WHAT ARE AI HALLUCINATIONS

Why AI models hallucinate

Language models hallucinate because standard training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty, suggests a resear

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