The Hallucination Minimizer: a simple way to stop trusting the wrong AI answers Hallucination is not a rare edge case. It still happens with the most advanced language models. Why? Because LLMs • do not have access to all relevant data • optimize for plausibility, not truth • are trained to be helpful, even when they should say “I don’t know” This becomes dangerous when AI is used for market analysis, strategy work, or competitive intelligence. So I built something to fix this. 👉 The Hallucination Minimizer It is a custom GPT that does not answer your question directly. Instead, it rewrites your prompt to actively reduce hallucination risk. What it does for you: • adds missing context • installs explicit guardrails • forces critical reflection before answering • increases specificity where it matters most Here is the link to the GPT: https://lnkd.in/dRP8ta_f
Prof, I’m curious whether you see hallucination mainly as the core problem, or more as a symptom of how humans reason with AI. Technical guardrails clearly help lower the risk of trusting the wrong answer, but I wonder whether we still need to remain actively skeptical and accountable.
Would you be willing to share some insights about the mechanism of your customGPT? Does it for example add special, but fixed verbiage? Is it designed to “just” reduze Halluzination or are techniques integrated which try to improve the prompt as it is?
Great addition Dries Faems, in the light of your existing "expert prompt generator" (which I use a lot) would you recommend to still use this one and then additionally run the result afterwards through the "hallucination minimizer"?
Dries Faems - Das ist genau der richtige Hebel: Nicht „bessere Antworten“ erzwingen, sondern bessere Fragen stellen – mit klaren Grenzen, Quellenpflicht und einem sauberen „weiß ich nicht“, wenn’s nötig ist. Gerade bei Markt/Strategie-Themen kann ein kleiner Prompt-Fehler richtig teuer werden. Wie misst du konkret, ob dein Minimizer wirklich weniger falsche Aussagen produziert (z. B. Testset, Quellenquote, False-Positive-Rate)?
Here is link to the full demonsration video: https://youtu.be/WXkUi3Z-zOo?si=Om4OgbN5fmtCSzfg