Euphemisms - soft terms used to replace something that is unpleasant or offensive - pepper our conversations about everything from using the bathroom ('powder my nose') to illness (the 'Big C') and death ('passed away'). Such disguises and deceptive language can be harmless. But when they obscure harmful misinformation, it's time to unmask them, particularly as we enter an election year, when disinformation and distortions flood our newsfeeds.
Because of the ways artificial intelligence technology gathers and distills information, it can 'see' things that aren't there and present these mirages to us as credible information. To downplay bad information that AI is serving up, the tech world has dubbed such instances 'hallucinations'.
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