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If an AI draft says a regulation took effect in 2024, verify the rule text, jurisdiction, effective date, and whether later amendments changed it.
8 AI Hallucination Check Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
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What to notice in the examples
A strong hallucination check does not ask the same model to simply reassure the writer. It extracts verifiable claims, prioritizes high-risk claims, checks them against authoritative or primary sources, records uncertainty, and removes or rewrites anything that cannot be supported.
- Claim inventory: every factual statement that could be checked independently.
- Risk ranking: claims with legal, medical, financial, reputational, citation, quotation, or current-information consequences first.
- Independent verification: original documents, primary data, official sources, or credible references.
- Resolution log: verified, corrected, qualified, removed, or still uncertain.
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If a generated quotation is attributed to an author, search the named work or a reliable primary edition; if the wording cannot be located, remove quotation marks and do not present it as verified.
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If an AI summary gives a 37% increase, trace the number to the underlying table and confirm the denominator, time period, and units.
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If a draft names a study, verify the title, authors, journal, year, and whether the study actually measured the outcome claimed.
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If product instructions mention a setting that may have changed after an update, check current official documentation instead of relying on remembered interface labels.
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If a generated biography includes a school, award, or job title, verify each detail separately; plausible combinations of real facts are a common failure mode.
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If an AI draft says 'research proves' a causal relationship but the source is observational, rewrite the claim to match the study design.
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If a cited webpage exists but discusses a different population or country, the citation is not adequate support for the original sentence.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.