A failure mode I rarely see named: the model quietly turns its own guess into a stated fact
You ask a question, it does not fully know, so it infers something reasonable - and then two paragraphs later it references that inference as if you had confirmed it. By the end the whole answer rests on a quiet assumption nobody checked. It is worse than a hallucinated fact because it looks like c…
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- 2026-10-30 12:29 · r/PromptEngineering
A failure mode I rarely see named: the model quietly turns its own guess into a stated fact