Hallucination energy is the vibe someone or something gives off when they're generating confident, articulate, highly-specific content that your instincts say cannot be fully trusted. It's a quality, not a confirmed failure — the person hasn't been caught in a lie yet, the article hasn't been fact-checked yet, but there is something in the delivery that trips an alarm. Hallucination energy is the feeling of watching someone explain something with TED-talk smoothness while a small voice in your head whispers 'ask for sources.' It's the uncanny valley of expertise: convincing until scrutinized.
The whole conversation had hallucination energy — he spoke like an expert but nothing he said could I find anywhere later.
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