https://deceit.blog/tag/hallucination Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "hallucination". en Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:10:05 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/how-ai-gets-used-to-sell-you-things-that-do-not-exist https://deceit.blog/essay/how-ai-gets-used-to-sell-you-things-that-do-not-exist Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. You ask an AI a question. It answers with confidence. You trust it because the tone sounds like knowledge. It is not knowledge. It is pattern matching dressed in authority, and people have figured out how to exploit that gap. This is not hypothetical. I documented a real case where an AI recommended…