AI Hallucination: How to Check a Wrong or Misleading Answer
AI hallucination explained: learn warning signs, verify sources, and check unreliable answers before they influence work, school, or important decisions.
Case Files
Complete, reproducible examples of AI answers that were wrong, incomplete, misleading, or unexpectedly useful after checking. Full audit cards required.
Teachers and tutors: what student-facing AI mistakes do you see most often?
I helped my nephew with a history assignment. The AI he'd used gave him three confident errors. Here's the audit card, and what I'm asking teachers and tutors to add.
I pasted a document into an AI tool before realizing it had personal data—what should the cleanup checklist say?
I pasted a client document into an AI tool before realizing it contained personal data. Here's the audit card, the cleanup steps I took, and the checklist I wish I'd had.
Wrong AI permit answer—how to document the correction?
I asked AI about a local fence permit. It gave a confident answer. The answer was wrong. Here's the full audit card and what I learned.
I checked 50 factual claims in an AI-written article—what error rate would concern you?
I audited 50 factual claims in an AI-written article. Fourteen were wrong or unsupported. Here's the full breakdown and what I'd consider an acceptable error rate.
The summary was accurate but missed one caveat that changed the decision
An AI summary was factually correct but left out one caveat that changed the entire recommendation. Here's how I audit omission, and why "accurate" isn't the same as "complete."