Synthetic Fluency: Hallucinations, Confabulations, and the Creation of Irish Words in LLM-Generated Translations

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Main Authors:	Castilho, Sheila, Fitzsimmons, Zoe, Holton, Claire, Donagh, Aoife Mc
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language
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