Hallucination Isn’t a Bug — It’s How Intelligence Works
Last Updated on October 13, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Abduldattijo
Originally published on Towards AI.
Q: Do humans and AI really hallucinate in similar ways?
AI hallucinate. But what if they’re doing it in surprisingly similar ways? In I Think, Therefore I Hallucinate (arXiv preprint, March 2025), researchers compare how errors propagate in human cognition and large language models.
The article explores the intriguing parallels between human and AI hallucinations, suggesting that both may stem from similar cognitive processes. By examining a research paper, the author conducts personal experiments that demonstrate how both humans and AI can fill in gaps of knowledge with confident inaccuracies, emphasizing that hallucinations are a form of predictive overreach rather than random errors. This notion is tied to predictive processing theories in neuroscience, showcasing that such phenomena can emerge under cognitive strain or limited information, and highlighting the implications for both AI development and our understanding of human cognition.
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