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- The Cambridge Dictionary is updating the definition of the word "hallucinate" because of AI.
- Hallucination is the phenomenon where AI convincingly spits out factual errors as truth.
- It's a word that also captures one of the AI industry's key challenges: misinformation.
The Cambridge Dictionary's newly crowned word of the year is a familiar one, but it's taking on a new meaning because of AI.
On November 15, the organization announced that "hallucination" would take on a new definition beyond just seeing or hearing something that does not exist. The word's entry in the dictionary will be amended to include: