Reddit users compare methods for catching AI's confidently wrong answers
Mysterious-Bed-3457 · reddit · 2026-09-22
A Reddit thread discusses the most important habit in daily AI use: not prompting, but catching confidently wrong answers. Because models are right most of the time, occasional confident mistakes sound no different from correct ones. The author asks for reasoning and sources on anything that matters, stays most alert where he can't verify — yet admits being fooled. Users share their own pre-emptive checks.
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