§2.2 · FOUNDATIONS · 5 MIN READ · EDITION 1.0
Why fluent is not the same as correct
A generated answer can be grammatically confident and factually wrong at the same time; fluency and accuracy are produced by different mechanisms.
A language model predicts plausible continuations of text. It has no built-in mechanism that halts generation because a claim is false; a wrong answer reads exactly as smoothly as a right one.
Guard against this by separating retrieval from generation, requiring an exact source citation for every claim, and treating an unsupported statement as a defect regardless of how well it reads.
PUT THIS INTO PRACTICE
- 01Never accept a finding without an exact source location.
- 02Treat confident tone as irrelevant to acceptance.
- 03Log unsupported claims as defects, not style issues.
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