I'm a behavioral neuroscientist (Ph.D.). I have been pushing for the usage of the expression "confabulate" given that LLMs like ChatGPT became well known in 2022. Confabulate might not be the best time period, but it surely's far better than hallucinate since hallucinate is more details on perception and confabulate https://erasmusq887nds8.shivawiki.com/user