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The re-ask test, and four other cheap checks for hallucinated output

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The scary hallucinations are not the obvious ones. An obvious one is easy. The model tells you a library has a function it does not have, you run the code, it throws, you move on. The dangerous ones are the confident, plausible, well formatted answers that are simply wrong, and read exactly like th…

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    The re-ask test, and four other cheap checks for hallucinated output

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