Guardian
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Cambridge dictionary announced hallucinate’ as its word of the year this week .
It was referring to the phenomenon of AI developing the capacity to make or fake things up.
This is itself a somewhat hallucinatory concept, as Naomi Klein has pointed out.
The adoption of humanising metaphors to conceptualise machines has been happening in literature since Frankenstein ’s monster reared out of early 19th-century fiction.
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