confabulation.
A casual conversation; a chat.
Meaning & usage
A casual conversation; a chat.
A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism.
An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that AI as if it were true but is in fact a made-up, false notion.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.
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