Techniques—such as strict prompt rules, document grounding, and citation checks—used to reduce the frequency of false facts generated by language models.

Borrows psychiatric medical vocabulary ("hallucination") to describe software making up wrong facts. It turns fixing a software text glitch into a clinical medical treatment program.

• Psychiatric Clinical Language: Using psychological medical terms to describe software generating false statements.
• The Absolute Cure Mirage: Promising total "mitigation" while statistical models remain inherently prone to occasional errors.
• Cooking Reality Check: Like dropping a steak on the floor and calling the cleanup "culinary contamination mitigation."

A Beautiful Mind (2000s) scene where John Nash stands in the library, staring intensely at imaginary figures before realizing they don't age, slowly learning to identify false perceptions.

Using strict rules and source files to prevent software from generating false information.

“Our platform prioritizes hallucination mitigation across all customer-facing search applications.”

“We put strict citation rules in place to prevent our search tool from generating false information.”