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confabulation

[ kuhn-fab-yuh-ley-shuhn ]

noun

  1. One night, over a beer, Jake and I got into a confabulation on the world and life in general, and Jake's affairs in particular.

  2. Psychiatry, Psychology. the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that they believe to be true:

    The report concluded that while the information elicited under hypnosis may be accurate, it may also include confabulations and pseudomemories.



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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦´Ç²Ô·´Ú²¹²ú·³Ü·±ô²¹Â·³Ù´Ç·°ù²â [k, uh, n-, fab, -y, oo, -l, uh, -tawr-ee], adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of confabulation1

First recorded in 1490–1500; from Late Latin ³¦´Ç²Ô´Ú²¹²ú³Ü±ôÄå³Ù¾±Å²Ô- (stem of ³¦´Ç²Ô´ÚÄå²ú³Ü±ôÄå³Ù¾±Å ) “conversation,†equivalent to ³¦´Ç²Ô´ÚÄå²ú³Ü±ôÄå³Ù(³Ü²õ) ( confabulate ) + -¾±Å²Ô- noun suffix; -ion
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For instance, AI sometimes invents sentences or phrases that are not in the original text, potentially creating false information — a phenomenon AI scientists call “hallucination†or “confabulation.â€

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Responses to the same query that contained vastly different meanings earned high entropy scores, signaling possible confabulations.

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A little-studied neurological disorder, confabulation is a memory error that generates false, fabricated, or distorted memories.

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Perhaps Amazon and Riley were emboldened by these examples or energized by the idea of transcending them, because this series has the courage of its confabulations.

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Future Western historians and writers, from Aristotle to Marco Polo, scoffed at Ctesias’ confabulations, while grudgingly referencing them as well.

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