mega hallucination
A mega hallucination is a confabulation so sprawling, detailed, and internally consistent that it takes significant effort to unpack where reality ends and fiction begins.
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A mega hallucination is a confabulation so sprawling, detailed, and internally consistent that it takes significant effort to unpack where reality ends and fiction begins. Where a regular hallucination might be a wrong date or a misattributed quote, a mega hallucination is a whole fabricated framework: fake studies with real-sounding authors, elaborate backstory with plausible citations, a narrative so complete it almost earns the benefit of the doubt. In both AI and human contexts, mega hallucinations are remarkable objects — painstakingly wrong in ways that require work to demonstrate.
That article was a mega hallucination — it cited six sources that either don't exist or say the opposite of what was claimed.
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