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L3.03

Hallucination and the Fact-Checking Burden

Cards in this group · 8

  1. L3.03.1Fluent wording is not the same as being correct
  2. L3.03.2The cost of checking can exceed doing the work oneself
  3. L3.03.3High-stakes settings must not leave checking entirely to the user
  4. L3.03.4When errors sit inside correct content, checking is sentence by sentence and costs about as much as rewriting
  5. L3.03.5The less familiar the domain, the harder checking is — and that is exactly when people ask the system
  6. L3.03.6Certainty of wording has no relation to reliability of content
  7. L3.03.7Errors in numbers, dates, and names are the hardest to notice and the most damaging
  8. L3.03.8Putting the checking duty in a disclaimer does not reduce how far errors actually spread