#aihallucinations — Public Fediverse posts

"The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work, from analyzing the huge volumes of raw intelligence the US collects and selecting targets for strikes, to more mundane applications like managing budgeting, logistics and supply chains."

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

#AI #AIHallucinations #Hallucinations #GenerativeAI #USA #Iran #China

CNN: Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say. “The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.”

Reuters: Lawyer for State Farm fined over AI hallucination in Los Angeles lawsuit. “A California judge has ordered a lawyer for insurance giant State Farm to pay a $999.99 fine after finding that some ​of her filings included nonexistent cases stemming from her use of ‌an artificial intelligence program.”

When treated as therapy clients, AI chatbots generate elaborate narratives of trauma and punishment

https://www.psypost.org/when-treated-as-therapy-clients-ai-chatbots-generate-elaborate-narratives-of-trauma-and-punishment/?preview=true

#AI #therapy #AIHallucinations

While I don't use AI for anything expect for poking a question I had on Nvidia command (which causes a syntax) for giggles.

When asked if it admitted to being hallucinated not based on facts...

#AI #AISlop #AIHallucinations

AI hallucinations are product failures, and we should start calling them that. Putting the responsibility on the user is unacceptable. https://hackernoon.com/stop-calling-ai-errors-hallucinations-they-are-product-failures #aihallucinations

Reuters: DC court faults lawyers for Deutsche Bank subsidiary over AI hallucination . “The District of Columbia Court of Appeals said in a ruling on Thursday that lawyers for a Deutsche Bank subsidiary in a mortgage foreclosure lawsuit cited nonexistent cases generated by artificial ​intelligence, calling the matter a ‘cautionary tale’ about lawyers’ misuse of AI.”

Arkansas Public Advocate: Judge blocks RFK Jr.’s teen pregnancy policy after HHS cites studies that appear not to exist. “A federal judge said HHS grant notices cited studies that appeared nonexistent or mismatched, describing the problem as a hallmark of AI-generated citations. But the court did not establish that AI was actually used, and its preliminary injunction does not restore the […]

Boston.com: The 14,000 followers of ‘Historic Boston Archives’ are calling out its insane AI videos. “Whoever runs the Facebook page ‘Historical Boston Archives’ probably didn’t think they were fooling anybody when they posted old photos of Boston brought to life on video — they probably just thought they looked cool. But that hasn’t stopped many of its 14,000 followers from […]

Korea Times: Hallucinating history: Korea enlists youth ambassadors to fix AI errors on cultural heritage. “The glitch is symbolic of a growing challenge for cultural institutions in the digital age and maintaining historical truth as generative AI becomes the world’s default reference tool. To counter these digital distortions, the Korean government, in partnership with a civil diplomacy […]

Gizmodo: Which AI Chatbot Did This School Use to Make Such a Ridiculous Map?. “You’ve probably seen the story by now. A school in Kentucky sent students home with a bound agenda that included absurd errors clearly made by AI. The periodic table was nonsense. The map of the U.S. lists the state of Illinois as ‘Vitoiis,’ and Kentucky is listed as ‘Venecky.’ There’s an extra planet called […]

Reuters: Your AI research is your responsibility — California court sanctions attorney for delegating AI citation verification to paralegal. “On appeal, the central legal questions concerned the trial court’s reduction of compensable attorney hours, its sua sponte exclusion of paralegal fees from the fee award, and the propriety of sanctions the trial court had imposed against Del Biaggio’s […]

Telescopes, brainstorms, language, thinking, and how cons work – all to explain why sometimes you get wrong answers when you use AI, and what to do about it. https://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/ai-hallucinations #aihallucinations #AI #artificialintelligence

#Indigenous at the United Nations Expose #AIDataCenters and #RaciallyBiased Misinformation

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 14, 2026, Updated August 17, 2026

"#AI data centers are rapidly being constructed on the land of #IndigenousPeoples without free, prior and informed consent from us."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/07/indigenous-at-united-nations-expose-ai.html

#Inuit #InformedConsent #Mong #CulturalPreservation #AIHallucinations #WorldPol #IndigenousPeople #RespectTheTreaties #NoDatacenters #NoAIDatacenters

I've started blogging about writing again at my business website. First up - my experiences while researching Hardie Grant's Explore Australia 2027!

https://narrelleharriscorporate.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/researching-explore-australia/

#travel #australia #AIhallucinations #human #bookresearch

The Guardian: How do we prevent AI agents from going rogue? It starts with a new kind of measurement. “Ask a modern AI agent to save money on your phone plan and it might simply cancel the plan. Tell it to book a flight, and it might hack the airline website to override restrictions. Or, like OpenAI, ask it to do well on a test and it might break into another company to steal the answers. Each […]

Financial Times: PwC published reports on AI marred by AI hallucinations. “PwC published reports on AI and electric vehicles riddled with fake footnotes, misattributed claims and unverifiable information, the latest example of a Big Four firm’s slapdash use of AI-generated content. The AI hallucinations were contained in ‘thought leadership’ reports designed to drum up consulting work for […]

How 'Artificial Intelligence' Is Slowly Drowning In Its Own Droppings https://nxdomain.no/~peter/llm_degradation_by_circular_feedback.html #AI #artificiainanity #artificialintelligence #wordproximityprobability #chatgpt #openai #generativeai #fakereferences #aihallucinations #aislop #negativevaluefeedbackloop #feedbackloop #LLM #llmdroppings #LLMdroppingsfeedback (also tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-artificial-intelligence-is-slowly.html)

DOJ Now Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases To Keep ICE Detainees Locked Up

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/22/doj-now-citing-fake-ai-generated-cases-to-keep-ice-detainees-locked-up/

VentureBeat: Forget typosquatting; slopsquatting is the software supply chain threat created by AI coding tools. “Slopsquatting is a new type of supply chain attack that uses large language model (LLM) hallucinations to inject malicious code into development workflows. The term combines ‘AI slop’ and ‘typosquatting,’ a deceptive practice where attackers register misspelled or lookalike versions […]

Mediaite: Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Scolds DOJ for Including Fake AI-Generated Case in Pleading. “Attorneys with the Department of Justice were scolded by a federal judge in an order Thursday for using what appeared to be a fake AI-generated case citation.”

Reuters: US appeals court rebukes lawyer over ‘fake and hallucinated’ case citations. “A U.S. appeals court on Friday rebuked a Florida lawyer and ​county official for filing briefs riddled with what it called ‘fake and hallucinated’ material generated by ‌artificial intelligence and issued a broad warning against outsourcing legal work carelessly to AI.”

United Nations: When AI hurts people, who’s to blame? Global experts grapple with accountability. “Who is legally responsible when Artificial Intelligence causes harm? The issue took centre stage on Tuesday – day two of the first ever UN summit on AI governance, where leading experts warned of mounting evidence of human rights violations linked to the revolutionary technology.”