RE: Is your AI hallucinating...?

Of course it is folly to rely on AI alone, and what you say about 'sources' has a ring of truth to it as well, because you don't find true journalists anymore, most copy from each other and the original source may well be a AI generated article by a so called 'journalist'.
I do use AI for artistic creations, because as a surrealist I deliberately write prompts in such a way as to confuse AI and make it halucinate on purpose. The results are fantastic!
There is a good article about the subject on IBM: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-hallucinations