AI Is Not the Only One That Hallucinates

An article on AI hallucinations and "human hallucinations": how people fill informational gaps with stories, assumptions, and unsupported certainty.

Published: 2026-05-02

An essay on the parallel between AI hallucinations and the cognitive mechanisms by which humans fill informational gaps with coherent but unsupported stories. Includes a short exercise in cognitive hygiene: don't hallucinate, verify.

By Iulia Postolachi — PhD Researcher, GEO Expert, Hybrid Intelligence & Cyber-Psychology.

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