What AI Gets Wrong: Made-Up Facts, Old Info and How to Check
AI is confidently wrong more often than people expect. The three most common mistakes, and a 60-second check that catches most of them.
By InnoStak Team
Series · Part 4 of 4AI Basics for Owners
- 1. What an AI Agent Actually Is (and What It Isn't)
- 2. Chatbot, Assistant or Agent? Picking the Right Kind of AI Help
- 3. Prompting Like a Manager: The 4-Part Brief That Gets Better Answers
- 4. What AI Gets Wrong: Made-Up Facts, Old Info and How to Check
AI doesn't know when it's wrong. It writes a made-up statistic in the same calm voice as a real one. That's not a reason to avoid it. It's a reason to know where it slips.
Mistake 1: Made-up facts
Sometimes called "hallucinations." The AI fills a gap with something that sounds right: a statistic, a quote, a policy, a law, a product feature. It's most likely when you ask for specifics it doesn't have.
Watch for: precise numbers, named studies, quotes, legal or tax rules, prices.
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- Mistake 2: Old information
- Mistake 3: Confident math
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