“If he is confabulating, he is wholly confident in his recollection and will stick to his guns. You can’t present anyone confabulating with evidence to the contrary because they believe their own reality.”

“We know people confabulate details in many situations, but it was neat to see this play out in the context of imagination,” McCoy says.

Shawn Oakley has shown that it is easy to induce ChatGPT to create misinformation and even report confabulated studies on a wide range of topics, from medicine to politics to religion.

I’m a confabulating somnambulist, a bundle of reflexes, twitches and compulsions with no self-knowledge, let alone self-control.

The personnel dressed in white jackets the next morning were busy confabulating and joking with one another while cheesy loud music was playing in the background.