confabulation
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confabulation
- /kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən/ US, UK
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.
noun confabulations
- A casual conversation; a chat. […] Mrs Grantly was preparing herself for a grand attack which she was to make on her father, as agreed upon between herself and her husband during their curtain confabulation of that morning.
- A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism. For Örulv and Hydén, confabulation is ‘world-making’ (669). What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture something important in the way the person makes sense of his or her life and also make meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206).
- 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.
