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Confident Isn't Accurate: How AI Hallucinations Actually Work
Community description: AI is moving relatively fast, despite being slow down. Yes, it feels like there's a new concept to...
Dev.to | Sep 29, 2026 | Alexandra
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It is a confident sounding answer to a question that the model doesn't have a reliable answer for. Ask the model to give sources and citations. Instruct the model to say "I don't know".
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