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Copy-Paste Prompt Catches AI Hallucinations in 8 Lines
A developer created an 8-line prompt that audits AI outputs for hallucinations by extracting factual claims and flagging suspicious ones. In tests, it caught fabricated studies and implausible statistics but missed a plausible-but-wrong date. The prompt converts fluent text into a verifiable checklist, breaking the fluency illusion.
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Useful as a lightweight sanity check, but don't rely on it alone—it's a triage tool, not a truth oracle.
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