Caveat: forcing AI beyond real alternatives triggers hallucination
gerardsans · x · 2026-08-23
@gerardsans adds a key caveat to the multi-answer prompting trick: if you force the AI to generate more alternatives than actually exist in its training corpus, it will hallucinate the rest. Example: only 2 brands exist for a product in reality, but you ask for 10—the extra ones will be fabricated.
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